Are medicaid cuts cruel?

See this article by Greg Ip. Excerpt:

"The Congressional Budget Office estimates policy changes under Trump will mean 16 million fewer people will have health insurance. Is that good or bad? That depends on your politics. Democrats and progressives think it is cruel.

Republicans, though, could point out that many of those people entered the U.S. illegally or gained benefits because of discretionary or temporary program changes. For example, nearly a third of that 16 million is because Republicans aren’t renewing a temporary expansion of Obamacare subsidies passed by Democrats under Joe Biden, and the Trump administration is tightening up enrollment and eligibility verification.  

A further half reflects changes to Medicaid eligibility, such as penalizing states that cover certain immigrants, verifying eligibility more often, or ending a loophole through which states and insurers extract more dollars from Washington."