Headlines From National Outlets and 18 States
No matter how hard Republicans try to ignore their health care crisis, it won’t go away. Hospitals, nursing homes, and health clinics across the country are closing their doors because Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans chose to cut $1 trillion from working people’s health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires. And from national television to small town papers, news networks are playing the story of that GOP health care betrayal on repeat.
The GOP health care crisis is not just deeply unpopular, but it puts millions of American lives on the line every single day. A Wisconsin man was forced to travel 100 miles and wait three days to receive life-saving heart surgery because every other hospital near him was shuttered. A rural Washington mom faces the prospect of driving nearly an hour to access emergency care for her daughters. Stories like these will only become more common if Trump and Republicans continue to prioritize tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy over health care for working people.
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. Recently, 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. We will continue ensuring that voters know who’s to blame for the deadly Republican health care cuts and hospital closures.
New York Times: ‘Medicaid Cut Me Off’: A Rural Health Center Faces New Pressures
Daily Mail: The Heartbreaking Final Hours of a Grandfather That Expose the Deadly Crisis Facing America’s Hospital System
Senior Housing News: Senior Living Operators Shift Plans as Medicaid Cuts Imperil State Waiver Programs
Alabama
AL.com: Alabama in Danger of Losing Half of Its Rural Hospitals: 5 Things to Know About the Health Care Crisis
Arizona
KJZZ: Arizona Rural Hospitals Committed to Patients but Will Collapse Without Funding, Hospital CEO Says
California
KSBW: Monterey County Hospitals Face Fiscal Crisis Amid Medicaid Cuts
Desert Sun: Opinion: Blythe Hospital Closure a Risk to Public Safety
Los Angeles Times: Opinion: Cuts to Medicaid and to Insurance Subsidies Will Push ERs Past the Brink
EMS1: Rural Calif. Hospitals Brace for Medicaid Cuts, Delay Upgrades Amid Uncertainty
San Jose Spotlight: Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto to Reduce Workforce
San Diego Business Journal: Local Healthcare Institutions Prepare for Impact of HR1 Cuts, Government Shutdown
Santa Barbara Independent: Opinion: County Public Health Risks Losing All Federal Funding for All Clinics and Patients
Lake County Record-Bee: Adventist Health Halts Plans for Scheduled Medical Clinic Prompted by Federal Health Care Cuts
Georgia
NOTUS: Trump’s Budget Law ‘Solidified’ a Georgia Hospital’s Decision to Shutter Its Delivery Unit
Illinois
MyStateline.com: Krishnamoorthi Warns of Nursing Home Risks Under Trump’s Proposed Bill
WREX: During a Campaign Visit in Rockford Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Met With a Local Nursing Home to Discuss Potential Big Beautiful Bill Impacts
Kansas
Topeka Capital-Journal: Medicaid Cuts Are a Ticking Time Bomb for Rural Kansas Hospitals
Minnesota:
Post Bulletin: Outside Mayo Clinic Northwest, DFL Rallies Against Republicans, Health Care Costs
CBS Minnesota: Minnesota Hospitals Could Lose $1 Billion Due to Federal Policy Changes, Association Says
Mississippi
Mississippi Independent: As Government Shutdown Drags On, Mississippi Healthcare Crisis Deepens
Commercial Dispatch: Budget Cuts to Medicaid, ACA Leave Mississippi Hospitals at Risk
WAPT: Mass Prayer at Greenwood Cemetery Protests Medicaid Cuts
Nebraska
Omaha World-Herald: Six Nebraska Hospitals Would Likely Close Under Trump’s Domestic Policy Bill, Advocates Say
New Hampshire
Business NH Magazine: Medicaid Cliff: Could Plummet NH’s Healthcare System Into Chaos
North Carolina
Port City Daily: Providers Grapple With Future Medicaid Cuts, Face Uncertainty Amid Government Shutdown
Ohio
WHIO: Kettering Health to Remove Obstetric Services From One of Its Largest Hospitals
Cleveland.com: Metrohealth Closure and County Cuts Complicate Plans for New Crisis Center
WKYC: Metrohealth to Close Cleveland Heights Psychiatric Emergency Department, Redeploy Staff to Expand Behavioral Health Services
Signal Cleveland: Under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Ohio to Lose $33 Billion for Medicaid; 340,000 to Lose Insurance, Analysts Say
Oregon
The Lund Report: Six Legacy/Gohealth Urgent Care Clinics in Portland and Clark County to Close
KGW8: Providence Shuts Downs Occupational Health Services at 4 Portland Clinics, Lays off 43 Caregivers
Willamette Week: Legacy to Close Several Clinics in Portland Area
Pennsylvania
ABC 6: Jefferson Health to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Impacting 1% of Staff
Penn Live Patriot-News: Opinion: Big Hospitals Are Gaming the Rural Healthcare System, and Congress Is Helping
Virginia
VA Dogwood: Rural Virginia Families Like Mine Are Crossing State Lines for Pediatric Health Care
Virginia Mercury: Virginia Hospitals, Clinics Brace for Federal Health Care Changes
Cardinal News: With Clinics Closed, Churchville’s Predicament Could Foreshadow Things to Come for More of Rural Virginia
Virginia Independent: Residents Tell Richmond Roundtable That Premium Hikes Will Make Health Care Unaffordable
Washington
KUOW: ‘I Don’t Sleep Well at Night.’ Washington’s Rural Hospitals Brace for Medicaid Cuts, Possible Closures
The Olympian: WA Lawmakers Confront Reality of Cuts Coming From One Big Beautiful Bill
West Virginia
Mountain State Spotlight: The Rural Health Fund Won’t Ease the Pain of Medicaid Cuts
West Virginia Watch: Federal Program Won’t Make Up for Medicaid Funding Loss to WV Hospitals
Wisconsin
WEAU: Closures of Rural Hospitals Impact Couple Needing Life-Saving Procedure