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Aaron Brown

Debunking the 100,000 Medicaid Deaths Myth

"More Americans will die—at least 100,000 more over the course of the next decade," wrote Yale law professor Natasha Sarin in a June 9 Washington Post column about the Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

"That isn't hyperbolic," Sarin added. "It is fact."

The average reader might be inclined to believe Sarin, who holds a Harvard Ph.D. in economics as well as a Harvard law degree, and served in the Treasury Department during the Biden administration. But contrary to her characterization, her claim is both hyperbole and not "fact."

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