YourVoice.Now Summary
Average Household ImpactWould repeal the Medicaid changes made by the 2025 reconciliation law and restore the rules that preceded them.
Average Household Impact
- Medicaid eligibility and coverage rules — Restored to the law in place before the 2025 reconciliation act
The details
Congress changed Medicaid in the 2025 budget reconciliation law, Public Law 119-21. Those Medicaid provisions would be wiped off the books. The earlier rules would come back exactly as they stood, as if that chapter had never been enacted. The text runs only a few lines, but the reach is broad. It targets one chapter of the reconciliation act — the Medicaid piece — and leaves the rest of that law untouched. Everyone covered by Medicaid, along with the states and providers that run the program, would return to the prior rules.
Congressional Summary
Protecting Americans' Health Care Act of 2026This bill repeals the Medicaid provisions that were enacted under what is commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Among other provisions, the act (1) requires individuals who are eligible for Medicaid as part of the Medicaid expansion population to engage in community service, work, or other activities in order to qualify for Medicaid; (2) generally restricts, beginning in FY2027, federal payment for Medicaid and CHIP to services for individuals who are U.S. residents and are either U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, Cuban-Haitian entrants, or Compact of Free Association migrants lawfully residing in the United States; and (3) generally limits Medicaid provider taxes beginning in FY2027.For more information about these and other Medicaid provisions in the act, see CRS Report R48633.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-07-09
- Date Added
- 2026-07-28
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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