Financial Pressure Is Becoming a Health Crisis For Black and Hispanic Adults

RFK Jr. at his hearing to be Secreatry of Health and Human Services by By U.S. Senate Senate Committee on Health via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 3.0

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ signed in July 2025 cuts $900 billion from Medicaid over ten years. The Congressional Budget Office estimates 11.8 million people will lose coverage. Nearly a third of Black adults and nearly a third of Hispanic adults depend on Medicaid for their health coverage now. Researchers have spent years tracing exactly what happens to the body when the money runs out.