Low-income Massachusetts residents at risk of losing Medicaid

WBUR | By Anthony Brooks

Published September 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM EDT

The Community Health Center of Franklin County's clinic at 8 Burnham Street, Turners Falls, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Hundreds of thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage over the next 10 years due to the massive tax and spending bill President Trump signed in July.

奥叠鲍搁鈥檚 s visited a community health care center in western Massachusetts to figure out how the cuts could impact their patients.

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Anthony Brooks

Anthony Brooks has more than twenty five years of experience in public radio, working as a producer, editor, reporter, and most recently, as a fill-in host for 91制片厂. For years, Brooks has worked as a Boston-based reporter for 91制片厂, covering regional issues across New England, including politics, criminal justice, and urban affairs. He has also covered higher education for 91制片厂, and during the 2000 presidential election he was one of 91制片厂's lead political reporters, covering the campaign from the early primaries through the Supreme Court's Bush V. Gore ruling. His reports have been heard for many years on 91制片厂's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.

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