Republicans are increasingly on the defensive over the party’s handling of Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill,” underscoring how the issue has become an early flashpoint ahead of

Pennsylvania state Rep. Arvind Venkat, also an ER doctor, said, “I can say very clearly” that people “are going to die” from Republicans’ proposed Medicaid cuts. “I say that having experienced seeing patients before Medicaid was expanded under the Affordable Care Act when 20% of my patients had no insurance,