More than 1 million children have lost insurance since President Donald Trump took office in 2025. Another million could lose it amid the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown and new Medicaid eligibility rules. On WAMU\u2019s Health Hub<\/em> on June 3, KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explained how fear and confusion complicate access to health coverage.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s big cuts to federal healthcare programs in the Republicans\u2019 One Big Beautiful Bill Act created an affordability crunch for many Americans. They\u2019ve ushered in higher health insurance premiums and confusion about who\u2019s covered under new Medicaid rules.<\/p>\n Another result has been falling enrollment in Affordable Care Act plans and Medicaid. That\u2019s leaving nearly 2 million children uninsured, according to an analysis by the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy\u2019s Center for Children and Families. KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner appeared June 3 on WAMU\u2019s Health Hub<\/em> to explain who\u2019s vulnerable to losing coverage and what it all could mean for the prices Americans pay for health insurance next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n More than 1 million children have lost insurance since President Donald Trump took office in 2025. Another million could lose it amid the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown and new Medicaid eligibility rules. On WAMU\u2019s Health Hub on June 3, KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explained how fear and confusion complicate access to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bunyad_sub_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1411,4067,3665,152,3670,4336,3652,3655,4153,4340],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthy","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-audio","tag-childrens-health","tag-chip","tag-immigrants","tag-insurers","tag-legislation","tag-multimedia","tag-obamacare-plans","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthoptibody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2244046846_3840x2560web.jpg?w=1270\")
\n#Millions #Kids #Lose #Insurance #GOP #Healthcare #Cuts #Start #Bite
\nMillions of Kids Could Lose Insurance as GOP Healthcare Cuts Start To Bite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"