Health care has been a job market bright spot, but Trump's budget bill looms over the industry

Main Idea: Trump’s budget bill could cut Medicaid and other health coverage enough to slow health care hiring and put many jobs at risk.

Key Points:

• Republicans are pushing a plan that would cut Medicaid spending by about $800 billion and could also let ACA tax subsidies expire.
• Those changes could cause nearly 8 million people to lose Medicaid coverage and 2 million more to lose ACA coverage.
• Researchers say the lost coverage could reduce visits, refills, and procedures, leading to about 500,000 fewer health care jobs over the next decade, plus 140,000 more if the ACA subsidies end.
• The impact would be especially hard on rural hospitals and community health centers, which rely heavily on Medicaid funding and employ hundreds of thousands of workers.