With the passage of Donald Trump and the GOP’s Big, Ugly Bill, hospitals, care facilities, and nursing homes around the country are preparing for the worst: service cuts, mass layoffs, and even closure. The GOP tax bill includes the largest cuts to health care in American history, slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and ripping health care from 17 million Americans in order to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. These draconian Republican cuts take critical revenue away from hospitals and clinics while forcing them to deal with the costs of more uncompensated care. People across the country, including seniors, people with disabilities, expectant mothers, and cancer patients, will face higher health care costs, have to travel further to get care, and endure longer wait times in overwhelmed emergency rooms. As hospitals and nursing homes close, people will lose jobs, local and state economies will suffer, and entire communities will be left without access to care, all so Trump and the Republicans could give more tax breaks to the rich.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch is tracking the harm Donald Trump and Republicans’ spending bill is inflicting on American health care in real time – community by community, hospital by hospital. Hospitals are struggling, care is vanishing, and the American people deserve to know who’s responsible.
LA Times: Federal Cuts Leave Los Angeles County Health System In Crisis
Newsweek: GOP Budget Threatens Rural Hospitals Across Several States
Santa Cruz Local: Federal Medicaid Cuts Could Threaten Watsonville Hospital’s Revival
KUOW/NPR: Trump Cuts Could Leave 250,000 Washingtonians Without Health Coverage, Shutter Rural Hospitals
Illinois Times Weekly: Illinois Hospitals Fear Massive Cuts Under Trump Domestic Policy Law
Maine Morning Star: Medicaid Cuts Could Cost Maine Hospitals $66 Million A Year, Report Finds
WFYI Indianapolis/NPR: Rural Hospitals Issue Warning In Wake Of Federal Cuts
WCNC Charlotte: Rural SC Hospitals Bracing For Changes Amid Medicaid Cuts
Washington Business Journal: Medicaid Cuts Threaten D.C.-Area Health Providers, Potentially Forcing Service Reductions And Layoffs
Houston Chronicle: What The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Means For Health Coverage, Hospitals And Medicaid In Texas
Enlace Latino NC: An Empty Hospital In North Carolina Highlights The Impact Of Medicaid Cuts.
The Lakeville Journal: Study Says Medicaid Cuts Put Sharon Hospital At Risk Of Possible Closure
Northern Kentucky Tribune: Kentucky Could Take The Biggest Hit As Result Of Latest Cuts To Federal Health Care Spending
News Center Maine: Maine Hospitals Concerned About Charity Care Expansion And Medicaid Cuts
The Journal: Federal Cuts And Frozen Funds Threaten Southwest Colorado Schools, Hospitals, Individuals And Families
Rhode Island Current: Federal Spending Cuts Leave A Big, Beautiful Question Mark Over Rhode Island
Pennsylvania Independent: Pennsylvania’s Rural Hospitals Face Closure Due To Republican Cuts To Medicaid
Spectrum News: 11 Rural Hospitals In Ohio Listed ‘At-Risk’ Due To Medicaid Cuts In One Big, Beautiful Bill Act
Illinois Journal-Courier: 3 Nursing Homes In Jacksonville Area, 93 In Illinois At Risk Of Closing Due To Cuts, Study Says
Mid Hudson News: Federal Cuts To Medicaid Could Affect Local Hospitals