NY Warns 950,000 People to Lose Health Coverage Under Trump Cuts

Nearly 1 million New Yorkers are expected to lose health coverage as a result of President Donald Trump’s federal budget, a shift that will strain the city’s struggling public hospital system.

Under eligibility changes enacted as part of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, an estimated 800,000 New York City residents are expected to lose Medicaid coverage, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a report Wednesday. An additional 150,000 residents will likely lose coverage from the state’s Essential Plan, which provides health care to low-income New Yorkers.

The growth in the number of uninsured New Yorkers will have a ...