Republicans swiftly approved President Trump’s tax cut bill last week, despite a full-court press from doctors, hospitals, and patients to beat back some of the largest health care cuts in American history — more than $1 trillion in all over the next decade. Lobbyists’ failure to stop or even substantially modify the bill leaves concerning questions for American health care: Has the influence of the health care industry, once among the most powerful, faded in Washington? And do doctors and hospitals — sometimes proxies for patient voices in government — understand how to navigate Trump’s remade Washington?
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Source: https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/08/trump-tax-bill-winners-losers-how-health-care-industry-lobbyists-failed-to-stop-cuts/