Families don’t need another report to tell them health care is becoming more unaffordable, but the latest data confirms what we’re already feeling in our wallets: Less than half of Americans can now afford health care.

Wondering what’s happening? We have answers.

Republicans triggered a nationwide health care crisis by slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid in their 2025 reconciliation bill and failing to extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.

But instead of fixing the crisis they created, in June the Republican-controlled Congress passed another reconciliation bill that, along with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, poured more than $240 billion into militarized immigration enforcement without guardrails to protect our communities – while ignoring the financial realities facing America’s families.

This health care crisis is not a question of resources – it is a question of priorities. The $240 billion would cover Medicaid for about 30 million people. And the daily cost of the war in Iran alone could cover the daily health care costs of the 16 million people expected to lose Medicaid – and still cover Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for all 41 million Americans who rely on it.

Again, the resources are there. The priorities are wrong.

Across America, working families are being pushed to the breaking point by a health care crisis that grows worse by the day. The consequences are devastating.

Just take the direct impact of the cuts in the 2025 reconciliation package: While about 16 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance by 2034 because of those Medicaid cuts, that’s just part of the negative consequences.

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