U.S. advocacy groups are launching a fierce campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare’s “big and beautiful bills” that could leave about 13 million Americans without health insurance after House Republicans proposed cutting $880 billion.

The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has split Senate Republicans: a hard work to put health care “ethically wrong, political suicide.” Others describe the cuts as inadequate and “anemia.”

"One of our patients just shared with us that when she had stage 4 lung cancer, she was not formally disabled, but she couldn't work. It was a rare day when she could even get off the couch," said Erika Sward, vice president of national advocacy for the American Lung Association.

“Then, when fighting for your life, you have to justify your illness.”

Sward joined colleagues from other disease-specific health advocacy groups at a press conference earlier this month, demonstrating opposition to the Republican bill, which recommends cutting everything from health care to home and food support. Republicans have proposed months of Medicaid cuts, but their ideas only published last week.

"This Medicaid battle is all our fights - it's been involved for a long time," Julie Nickson, director of federal relations at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, said in a news conference.

The bill is one of two Republican proposals. The second is the White House budget proposal for the health department that could re-renovate health care and scientific research in the United States.

According to early estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the House bill will draw savings from Medicaid primarily by increasing work requirements, with an estimated $7.15 billion in savings. Medicaid is a public health insurance program covering approximately 71 million low-income, disabled and elderly Americans.

According to multiple studies, job requirements put significant administrative burdens on beneficiaries while failing to push people into the workforce, which is the stated goal of the requirement. According to the left-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priority, Republicans’ bill would require people to work before applying for Medicaid, a proposal that is particularly difficult for Americans with patients.

Even the right question, the strategy is the case: Conservative Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley laughed at the idea in an opinion article in the New York Times.

Trump sent him mixed messages about his support for Medicaid, especially in plans he promised to protect during his campaign, but promised to protect it by April. Republicans' attempt to abolish Obamacare in 2017 was a huge failure, something Trump later called "despicable."

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr defended the proposal at a hearing on Capitol Hill and told lawmakers that “healthy (adult) refuses to find jobs and volunteers” posed a threat to the health system.

He later said: "Medicaid is for children with poverty, suitable for mothers, and it is for people with disabilities." This population is much smaller than the millions of low-wage workers and older people who rely on the program.

According to Kaiser Family Foundation, a healthcare research group, most people who receive Medicaid and are able to work do so. States have tried job requirements, such as in Arkansas, where job requirements in Arkansas result in 18,000 people losing coverage. The Biden administration has revoked permits in most states to increase Medicaid job requirements.

The House's proposal to cut Medicaid is combined with Republicans' desire to allow senior tax credits obtained through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA or Obamacare tax credit reduces the cost of health insurance that individuals can purchase on regulated, state-based health insurance exchanges.

Prior to the ACA, it was difficult for individuals to purchase health insurance because most health systems in the United States were employer-based insurance. The Congressional Budget Office together estimates that the proposals could result in more than 13 million people losing insurance by 2034.

"We know the overwhelming amount of a Medicaid person who can work at work - nearly 9 people," Sward said, adding that the job requirements "don't solve the bigger problem in our county, that is, health needs to work in order to be able to work."

Last week, Republicans filed a committee bill. Speaker Mike Johnson set a Memorial Day deadline to circulate it out of the conference hall.