American health care is teetering on the brink. While billionaires and big corporations revel in $1 trillion in GOP tax breaks, the nation has been plunged into a Republican-manufactured health care crisis. In California, hundreds of hospital employees — including nurses, therapists, and surgeons — are being laid off. In Pennsylvania, over 350 hospital workers are losing their jobs, while surgical step-down, intensive care, and endoscopy units are closing. In Illinois, rural communities and hospitals are reeling from GOP Medicaid cuts and bracing for the worst. From every corner of the nation, more than 600 health care providers are at risk of cutting critical services or shutting down entirely.
Every service cut, every hospital closing its doors, and every essential worker fired puts patients’ lives in jeopardy. And come November, voters at the ballot box won’t forget that Trump and Republicans took a hammer to American health care so their billionaire donors can profit from mayhem and misery.
Axios: ACA, Medicaid Changes Make 2026 A Make-Or-Break Year For Hospitals
Health Care Brew: CMS Is Dispersing The Rural Health Fund, But Experts Say It Doesn’t Offset Medicaid Cuts
Scienceline: Long COVID Clinics Are Quietly Closing, Leaving Thousands of Patients Without Specialized Care
Arizona
AZ Mirror: Medicaid Cuts Backed by Juan Ciscomani Will Cost Southern Arizona Hospitals $110 M Every Year
California
The Business Journals: Alameda Health System Lays off Hundreds of Workers, Blames ‘Unprecedented’ Federal Cuts
CBS: Medicaid Cuts Trigger Layoffs at East Bay Hospitals Serving Alameda County’s Most Vulnerable
Mercury News: Alameda County Hospital System Lays off Hundreds of Employees to Counter Federal Cuts
Lookout Santa Cruz: Watsonville Community Hospital Faces Shortage of ICU Nurses as It Continues to Struggle Financially
Colorado
FOX21 News: Colorado Hospitals Facing Looming Financial Crisis
Illinois
KWQC: Rural Illinois Hospitals Warn of Service Cuts Without State Funding
Iowa
KCRG: Southeastern Iowa Clinic Announces Closure, Another Reducing Services
Ottumwa Courier: Mercyone Ottumwa Clinic to Close Feb. 27; Another Clinic Reduces Services
Minnesota
Mesabi Tribune: New Health Funds Won’t Offset Medicaid Cuts (Opinion)
Mississippi
Sun Herald: Hospital ERs Brace For More Patients As Federal Health Care Cuts Take Hold
Missouri
MissouriNet: Report: Dozens Of Rural Missouri Hospitals At Risk Of Closing
KY3: Mercy Hospital to Close Springfield Optometry Clinic in April
Nebraska
Nebraska Public Media: Nebraska Hospitals Prepare to Face Policy Changes, Potential Cuts This Year
1011Now: Nebraska Hospital Leaders Warn Mounting Financial Challenges and Medicaid Cuts Could Affect Care Access
KETV: Nebraska Hospitals Face Rising Costs and Potential Budget Cuts
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Bulletin: Think Tank Reports Four Rural Nh Hospitals Are At Risk Of Closing; Local Officials Less Pessimistic
New York
WHEC: ‘Code Red’ Declared by Local Healthcare Workers Over Federal Funding Cuts
WKBW: Health Care Workers From Western New York Head to Albany to Protest Federal Cuts
Ohio
Ohio Capital Journal: Federal Funds for Rural Health on the Way to Ohio, but Not Enough to Offset Cuts, Advocates Say
Pennsylvania
Nurse.org: Nurses Sound Alarm as Tower Health Cuts 350 Jobs, Closes Entire Units
Pennsylvania Independent: Maternal Health Care Deserts Are Spreading in Rural Pennsylvania