The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare
Steve Bonitatibus • July 3, 2025

The Center for American Progress and The Arc break down the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, exposing how its deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare will lead to benefit losses, increased paperwork requirements, and rural hospital closures that will hurt Americans—especially people with disabilities.

Health care experts are warning that costs for insurance will likely rise again in 2025.One trend that may be contributing to higher insurance costs is the growing market concentration among fewer insurance companies.We recently looked at changes in private health insurance market concentration. We also compared costs under two types of private health plans—employer-sponsored plans and individual plans offered on the Healthcare.gov Marketplace.Today’s WatchBlog post looks at what we found and reported in two new reports about these trends.