The consequences have been swift since Donald Trump and Republicans made the largest health care cuts in history, slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and ripping coverage away from more than 15 million Americans. Already, clinics and hospitals across the country have announced service cuts and closures as a result of GOP health care cuts. 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. State and local economies will suffer as hospitals are forced to lay off staff or close their doors entirely. Donald Trump and Republicans have condemned entire communities to suffer so the ultra-rich can continue to line their pockets.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch is tracking the harm Donald Trump and Republicans’ spending bill is inflicting on America’s health care system in real time – community by community, hospital by hospital. Hospitals are closing, care is vanishing, and the American people deserve to know who’s responsible.
Hospitals
Talking Points Memo: These Are the Communities Most Likely to be Hurt By Hospital Closures and Medicaid Cuts
Ohio Capital Journal: Medicaid Cuts Could Mean Hundreds of Thousands of Job Losses Annually, Study Finds
Axios: Medicaid Cuts Could Cause More Challenges for Expectant Mothers
The Atlantic: Medicaid Cuts Will Be a Disaster for ERs
KARE 11: New U of M Study: When a Rural Hospital Closes, Prices Go Up $500 at Others Nearby
The Daily Yonder: Report: Over Half of Texas’ Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closure
The Guardian: ‘We Need Some Hope’: Can a Rural Hospital on the Brink Survive Trump’s Bill?
ABC 7: DeSoto County’s Only Hospital Considers Sale or Merger as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Cascade PBS: 14 Rural WA Hospitals Deemed at Risk of Closure From Medicaid Cuts
Bowling Green Daily News: Medicaid Cuts Put Region’s Rural Hospitals at Risk
WABI 5: Northern Light Health Bracing for Impact of Medicaid Cuts Due to Big Beautiful Bill
IPM Newsroom: Already in the Red, Rural Hospitals Across the Midwest Brace for Medicaid Changes
Daily Mail: Warning to Thousands of Americans as More Than 300 Hospitals at Risk of Closure… Check if Your Nearest Is in Danger
NOLA.com: Opinion: Medicare Cuts Hit Independent Doctors Hard. The Impacts Are Borne by Patients
Second Wave Media: Washtenaw County health professionals anticipate “devastating” effects of Medicaid and Medicare cuts
Fresno Bee: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Places Fresno County Hospital Under Financial Stress
Cascadia Daily News: Doing More With Less, Local Health Care Providers Brace for Cuts
VA Dogwood: Virginia Hospitals to Lose Billions Under Trump’s Medicaid Cuts; Job Losses Could Follow
This is Reno: Medicaid Cuts in Trump’s Tax Bill Put Nevada Hospitals, Patients With Disabilities at Risk
WRTV: Indiana Hospitals Facing Financial Crisis While Grappling With Medicaid Cuts
The Pioneer: Rural Hospitals Face Uncertainty Ahead Of Impending Medicaid Cuts
Colorado Public Radio: A Key Rural Hospital In La Junta Is Laying People Off With Deep Federal Medicaid Cuts Looming
Clinics
Roll Call: Planned Parenthood Clinics Reel From Republicans’ Budget Law
CBS: Planned Parenthood Closes 5 California Locations After Trump Administration Funding Cuts
Fresno Bee: Planned Parenthood Clinic Closes in Madera Due to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Cuts
Chron: Two Houston-Area Planned Parenthood Clinics to Close Its Doors This Fall
Cincinnati Enquirer: ‘Heartbreaking Decision’: Planned Parenthood to Close 2 SW Ohio Clinics
Nursing Homes
Fox 5: Medicaid Cuts Could Impact 37 Georgia Nursing Homes, Study Says