Manufacturing And Agricultural Workers Voted For Trump And Now They May Lose Their Health Insurance

Millions of manufacturing, agricultural, and retail workers will lose their health insurance under the Republican tax cut bill. Trump got majority support of agriculture and manufacturing workers.

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House Republicans unveiled their plan to pay for tax cuts for the rich with Medicaid cuts, and it is estimated that 14 million Americans will lose their healthcare under the GOP plan.

What is interesting is who stands to lose their access to healthcare.

According to an analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP):

CAP finds that implementing Medicaid work requirements could leave a combined 2.7 million manufacturing, agricultural, and service workers without health coverage in the first year, increasing to an average of 3.4 million workers in subsequent years. This may be a conservative estimate because the Brookings study was based on workers across a broad spectrum of industries, with a lower overall rate of turnover and seasonality than for agriculture and services.

While it is unclear whether the federal Medicaid work reporting requirement policy under consideration by R…