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House Proposal Would Strip Health Coverage From 200,000 New Jerseyans, NJPP Warns

Cutting Medicaid to fund massive tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy would roll back over a decade of health care affordability progress.

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Published on May 12, 2025 in Health

On Monday, May 12, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee released its plan to cut Medicaid by over $700 billion. Debate on the bill begins Tuesday, May 13 — the next step that would take health insurance coverage away from 8.6 million people. Three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation sit on the committee: Reps. Frank Pallone (D), Robert Menendez, Jr. (D), and Thomas Kean, Jr. (R).

In response, New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) issues the following statement.

Brittany Holom-Trundy, Senior Policy Analyst, NJPP:

“The House plan to cut Medicaid would strip hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans of their health insurance and roll back more than a decade of progress in making health care more affordable.

“Whether through block grants, work requirements, or other means, the outcome is the same: 8.6 million Americans would lose their insurance — including nearly 200,000 New Jerseyans, if cuts are distributed evenly across the states.

“These cuts are a direct attack on the health and well-being of families working hard to make ends meet.

“New Jersey cannot afford to reverse its successful, bipartisan Medicaid expansion just to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires and large corporations.”

For more on how proposed Medicaid cuts would harm New Jersey, read NJPP’s March publication on the impact of work requirements.

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Author

  • Dr. Brittany L. Holom, Senior Policy Analyst, is a researcher and lecturer whose interests include health care system reform, the differential impact of health policies across socioeconomic groups, and the role of social and cultural factors in the access to and use of health care services, as well as health outcomes.
    Prior to joining NJPP in May 2020, Brittany taught classes on human security, health care systems, post-Soviet politics, human rights, and development at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and in the Department of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. She also served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at the Puerto Rican Action Board in New Brunswick and has recently volunteered at one of New Jersey’s COVID-19 testing sites as part of the Medical Reserve Corps.
    Brittany received her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2018, where her dissertation explored healthcare reforms in the former Soviet countries and the impact of decision making at critical junctures on long-term institutional trajectories. She received her Master’s in Politics from Princeton in 2013 and her Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language and Literature and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2011.
    Email: holom (at) njpp.org
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