Donald Trump and Republicans have unleashed chaos in our health system, ripping over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Since they’ve launched their all-out assault on the nation’s health care infrastructure to dole out tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, thousands of hospital workers have been laid off, rural hospitals are beginning to shutter, and community health centers are slashing services. Those who once relied on their locally trusted providers will soon be forced to embark on long journeys for basic care. Donald Trump and Republicans are so intent on continuing their health care crisis that they’re now holding the government hostage in the shutdown to make their catastrophic policies irreversible.
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. This week, Protect Our Care and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) announced a grim milestone of 500 providers closing or at risk because of the GOP health care crisis.
New York Times: A Freeze on Medicaid Payments Is Forcing Cuts to Rural Health Care
Forbes: Medicaid Cuts May Already Be Impacting Hospitals
The Daily Yonder: Rural Health Transformation Program Won’t Make Up for Federal Budget Cuts, Experts Agree
POLITCO: Trump’s New $100K Visa Fee Could Pummel Red State Hospitals
NOTUS: Republican Senator Says Trump’s Steep H-1B Visa Fee Could Hit Rural Hospitals
Modern Healthcare: Tax Law, Medicaid Cuts Driving Countrywide Layoffs
ABC News: The High Cost of Hospital Closures in Rural Areas
Chief Healthcare Executive: Hospitals Have Laid off Thousands Since June
Good Morning America: Rural Maternity Wards Face Crisis
We Are Iowa: Rural Hospitals Struggling to Support Expectant Mothers
Becker’s Hospital Review: 79 Hospitals, Health Systems Cutting Jobs
KFF Health News: At Least 170 US Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk. Experts Say Trump Is Making It Worse.
Governing: The Dramatic Downstream Effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
HEP: Projected Surge in Uninsured Will Strain Local Health Systems
Alabama
Montgomery Advertiser: Jackson Hospital Under Threat of Closure, Could Strain Montgomery Healthcare Landscape
Alabama Reflector: As Federal Shutdown Looms, Alabama Clergy Lead Protest Against Medicaid, SNAP Cuts
California
The Guardian: Rural US Town Outraged as Only Hospital Forced to Shut: ‘I Would Have Died Without It’
KCRA: California State Association of Counties CEO Warns Federal Health Care Budget Puts Rural Hospitals at Risk | California Politics 360
Fox 11: Another IE Hospital Closing Its Maternity Ward
EMS1: Calif. County’s Lone Ed Closes, Forcing Fire and EMS to Close the Gap
CBS News: Corona Regional Medical Center Closing Labor and Delivery Ward in 2026
Desert Sun: Blythe Residents Will Soon Have to Drive at Least 100 Miles to Receive Medical Care
YubaNet: Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Announces Closure of Home Health Services After 28 Years of Dedicated Service
KQED: Santa Clara County Sales Tax, Measure A, Pitched to Offset Deep Medicaid Cuts
Idaho
Idaho Capital Sun: The Federal Government Shut Down After a Health Care Clash. In Idaho, the Stakes Are High.
Illinois
Chicago Business: Maternity Care Gaps Widen as More Chicago-Area Hospitals Cut Obstetrics
Illinois Times: Losing Health Care Coverage
Louisiana
Katch: Heart Hospital ER Services Moving to Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center
Axios: Shutdown and Medicaid Cuts Deal One-Two Punch to Virginia Hospitals
Louisiana Weekly: Medicaid Patients Lose Quick Access to Basic Care After Planned Parenthood Cuts and Closures
Maine
The Maine Monitor: See Where All of Maine’s Delivery Wards and Nursing Homes Have Closed in the Last Decade
AOL: Maine Clinics Also Hit by Cuts That Targeted Planned Parenthood Plan to Halt Primary Care
Michigan
AFSCME: Health Care Cuts, Government Shutdown Put Michigan Families at Risk
Montana
Daily Montanan: Shutdown to Have ‘Devastating Consequences,’ Montana Nurses Say
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight News: Will Emergency State Aid Save Troubled Jersey City Hospital?
Jersey City Times: Operator Threatens to End ‘Nonessential Services’ at Heights Univ Hospital in Jersey City
New York
CWA District 1: ACTION ALERT – Local 1168 Fights Back Against Hospital Closures; You Can Help
North Carolina
National Nurses United: Nurses Sounding Alarms on Mission Hospital Patients Being Impacted by Medicaid Cuts Starting October 1 in North Carolina
ABC11: Cuts to Medicaid Reimbursement Set to Go Into Effect Wednesday in North Carolina
The Christian Science Monitor: The Shutdown Looms Large in Rural America – With Medicaid Under Debate
Ohio
WHIO: Medicaid Cuts Impact Miami Valley
MSN: Ohio Planned Parenthood Clinics Face Challenges Amid Funding Cuts, Impacting Thousands of Patients
Oregon
OPB: US Sen. Jeff Merkley on Government Shutdown, Health Care and Authoritarianism
The Wenatchee World: A Rural Oregon Town Lost Its Maternity Ward. As Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Loom, Other Hospitals May Be Next
Central Oregon Daily: Rural Hospitals in Oregon Struggled to Maintain Maternity Care Even Before Medicaid Cuts
Texas
WFAA: One of the Fastest-Growing Counties in Texas Just Lost Two Emergency Rooms
Virginia
MSNBC: GOP Budget Spurs Closure of Virginia Health Clinics Ahead of High-Stakes Gubernatorial Race
Axios: Shutdown and Medicaid Cuts Deal One-Two Punch to Virginia Hospitals