Health care providers across the country are struggling to stay afloat after Donald Trump and Republicans cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Hospitals in rural and low-income communities, already strapped for cash, are cutting staff and closing their doors in anticipation of federal funding cuts. Nursing homes are bracing for devastating blows to their bottom lines. 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 Republicans could give more tax breaks to the rich. Read more about the disaster the GOP budget bill has created for rural hospitals here.
Protect Our Care is calling attention to the devastating impacts of the GOP tax scam. Last week, ahead of RFK Jr.’s testimony in front of the Senate Finance Committee, Protect Our Care and 314 Action teamed up with U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), and all six members of the Democratic Doctors Caucus to hold RFK Jr and Donald Trump accountable for the public health crisis they are creating. Watch the press conference here.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) recently joined Protect Our Care to relaunch Hospital Crisis Watch, shining a light on the harm Donald Trump and Republicans’ spending bill is inflicting on American health care. Hospitals are struggling, care is vanishing, and the American people deserve to know who’s responsible.
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Virginia Mercury: Augusta Health closes three clinics, citing One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Cal Matters: Another California county is losing its only hospital after feds refuse to step in
CBS: In the fallout from Trump’s health funding cuts, states face tough budget decisions
USA Today: Medicaid expansion boosted these Appalachian counties. Will cuts deliver an outsized hit?
Stateline: Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients
McKnights Long-Term Care News: Some are not worrying enough about HR 1’s impact on nursing homes
Raw Story: Medical doctors deliver brutal fact check to RFK Jr.: ‘It’s easy for him to be dishonest’
Spokesman-Review: ‘Strained past our breaking point’: Washington’s small-town hospitals fear closure as Medicaid cuts loom
13 News Now: Sen. Warner presses RFK Jr. on Medicaid, COVID response; highlights rural hospital risk in Virginia
13 News Now: Southampton Medical Center at risk of closure after Medicaid cuts hit rural hospitals
The Post: Medicaid cuts pose potential threats to rural Ohio hospitals
Oroville Mercury-Register: Rural hospitals could face a not-so-beautiful future
Hudson County View: Op-Ed: ‘Hudson Regional Health is writing their own story for our residents’
Los Angeles Business Journal: CHLA Cutting 439 Positions
Idaho Statesman: Medicaid cuts threaten ‘devastating blow’ to Idaho nursing homes, hospice care
Lookout Santa Cruz: Watsonville hospital courts health care partners as federal cuts threaten multimillion-dollar loss
Cleveland.com: MetroHealth forced to cut charity care as costs hit $1 million per day: Blame Donald Trump
Cleveland.com: Here it is, the absolute truth about how the big beautiful bill impacts Ohio Medicaid: Today in Ohio
WXXI News: Federal cuts could make providing health care in NY’s rural counties harder
Denver Business Journal: New tax funds Denver Health improvements, but challenges loom
Summit Daily: ‘Tip of the iceberg:’ What Colorado governor’s cut to Medicaid reimbursement rates means for health care providers
9 and 10 News: Michigan House GOP proposes $3.7 billion cut to healthcare funding
Daily Sun: ‘The most vulnerable’: Rural, inner city communities brace for impacts of Trump’s Medicaid cuts
Common Dreams: ‘Death Warrant’: New Fears Emerge as GOP Medicaid Cuts Come Closer to Reality
Modern Healthcare: How Trump’s healthcare cuts have providers, patients scrambling