If you haven’t already been killed by the great net neutrality repeal of 2017 or the Title X gag rule of 2019, you’re in luck. For the umpteenth time in the past decade, Democrats are promising that anywhere between tens of thousands and “millions” of people will die because of a Republican domestic priority.

This time, it’s because of the massive tax, spending, and immigration law that President Donald Trump signed on July 4, his self-proclaimed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a domestic agenda cornerstone in his second, nonconsecutive term.

The primary mechanism that Democrats say will murder the masses is the law’s reforms to Medicaid, citing a Congressional Budget Office estimate that 11.8 million people who would otherwise be insured will be booted off Medicaid by 2034. This, of course, ignores the fact that every welfare program, even those without automatic spending cuts, such as the 24% across-the-board benefit cut Social Security will face in the next seven to eight years, involves trade-offs.

For starters, this 11.8 million figure isn’t quite what it seems.

More than 2 million of those........

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