Moral objectors to Medicaid reform fail to identify a better moral alternative

For the sake of argument, let’s assume that the most dire Democratic prognostications over Medicaid reforms in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act come true:

By 2034, nearly 12 million low-income Americans are “kicked off” their Medicaid coverage. The elderly and disabled face mounting medical debt. Rural hospitals, starved of Medicaid funds, shutter en masse. Life expectancy plummets. Skyrocketing inequality fuels social unrest.