One health policy professor said cutting Medicaid and similar programs "will be devastating" to millions of Americans.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Medicaid cuts could leave nearly 12 million Americans uninsured.

The House passed the "Big Beautiful Bill" on Thursday. The bill includes over $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, work requirements for Medicaid and millions will lose health care.

States and rural health advocacy groups are sounding the alarm that Congress’ slashing of Medicaid will devastate already financially fragile rural hospitals

A Republican megabill cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid, risking closures for hospitals that serve some of America’s most vulnerable. Rural hospitals in the U.S. already operate on a razor’s edge, but new cuts to Medicaid in the Republican appropriations bill could tip many of them into failure.