Decoding the Moment: Health Impacts of the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
A Conversation with Eric Roberts, PhD, Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP, Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, and Dan Gorenstein
The House-passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” now under consideration by the Senate cuts federal spending on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act by about $1 trillion over the next decade. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the law will push 16 million people off their health insurance by 2034 and also save money by nixing a Biden-era rule to increase nursing home staffing. Researchers at Penn LDI and Yale have estimated that the changes could lead to 51,000 preventable deaths each year.
In the third seminar presented as part of LDI and Tradeoffs’ “Decoding the Moment” series, University of Pennsylvania experts will help us understand how the policies proposed in the bill could cost people their health insurance and potentially their lives.
About the Decoding the Moment series
The Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to reshape federal health policy have created a fast-moving, uncertain landscape for the health care sector and policymakers. In response, Penn LDI and Tradeoffs launched the virtual event series, Decoding the Moment, to provide timely, evidence-based discussions on key federal policy changes. Through conversations with leading experts, this series explores the implications of recent actions and what they signal for the future. The first discussion in the series focused on new rules for vaccine approvals, and the second on cuts to violence prevention funding.
Speakers
Eric Roberts, PhD
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine; Pediatric Hospitalist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
Executive Director, Penn LDI; Robert D. Eilers Memorial – William Maul Measey Professorship in Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School; Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
