From California to Maine, hospitals and clinics are closing their doors, and entire departments are disappearing 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. Seniors, people with disabilities, expectant mothers, and cancer patients are facing higher health care costs, traveling further to get care, and enduring longer wait times in overwhelmed emergency rooms. As care centers 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.
Over the summer, Republicans couldn’t escape the heat of their constituents. Everywhere they went, people were furious about the largest cuts to health care in history, booing their representatives out of town halls and other events. Upon their return to Washington, D.C., there won’t be any respite for Republicans. Yesterday, Protect Our Care launched Accountability Autumn: The Trump-GOP Health Care Disaster to continue to hold them accountable for breaking our health care system.
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.
NPR: How Rural Hospitals Are Banding Together To Survive
The Washington Post: Medicaid Cuts Threaten Rural Hospitals — and Access to Maternity Care
Watauga Democrat: Hospital System Facing Risings Costs, Federal Cuts
Gilroy Dispatch: County Officials Warn of ‘Critical’ Federal Healthcare Cuts at Townhall
Iowa City Press-Citizen: Construction of UI Health Care’s $1.5b Inpatient Tower Postponed, School Cites Funding Cuts
Cleveland.com: MetroHealth Not Alone: Hospitals Nationwide Eye Uncertain Future As Medicaid Cuts Loom
Business World: Medicaid Cuts Spell Uncertainty for Rural Hospitals, Including Those in NCW
The Texas Observer: West Texas Congressman’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District
CT Mirror: What Worries CT Hospital Leaders About Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
McKnights Long-Term Care News: State Forces Nursing Home Rate Cut, Raising Doubts About Ability to Provide Required Services
NC Health News: Medicaid Cuts Create Hurdle for Rebirth of Martin Co. Hospital
KTVB7: The Cuts Keep Coming: 4% Cut to Idaho’s Medicaid Proposed
KVUE: Rural Hospitals are Expected to Lose Money from Trump’s Bill, Despite RFK Jr.’s Promise
Statesman Journal: Report Says Silverton Hospital at Risk of Closure Due to Years of Financial Losses
The Wisconsin Independent: Wisconsin ER Doctor: Everyone Will ‘Be Paying the Price’ of Medicaid Cuts
Albuquerque Business First: Rural Hospital Closures Loom as New Mexico Faces $1.5b Medicaid Budget Slash
Statesboro Harold: Candler County Hospital Fights to Stay Open
Michigan Advance: Michigan Democrats Continue Attack on Mike Rogers’ Medicaid Stance, Warn of Rural Hospital Closures
News Center Maine: Multiple Maine Family Planning Clinics Across the State May Close Due to Medicaid Cuts