Congress passing the controversial One Big Beautiful Bill Act could leave millions without insurance and lead to at least 16,000 annual preventable deaths, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
In May, the House of Representatives Budget Committee advanced a bill incorporating several spending reductions “to offset revenue losses from proposed tax cuts,” Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and colleagues wrote.
The legislation — known colloquially as the “Big,