Hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities across the country are already feeling the blow from Donald Trump and Republicans’ largest health care cuts in history. Cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations has left hospitals and clinics reeling. Clinics are closing their doors and entire departments are disappearing, leaving patients with nowhere to turn. People across the country, including seniors, people with disabilities, expectant mothers, and cancer patients, will face higher health care costs, have to travel further to get care, and endure longer wait times in overwhelmed emergency rooms. 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.
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. Hospitals are struggling, care is vanishing, and the American people deserve to know who’s responsible.
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The Hill: Planned Parenthood to Close Louisiana Clinics
KREM 2: Providence Shutters Clinics in Spokane and Stevens Counties, Lays off 50+ Employees
WLOX: Memorial Hospital Biloxi to End Labor and Delivery Services
Becker’s Hospital Review: Alabama Hospital to Close ED
Cuts and Threats
Bloomberg: Medicaid Cuts Set to Drain Revenue at Elite Teaching Hospitals
HuffPost: Experts Say Trump’s Big Bill Will Shut Down This 1 Type Of Hospital — And It’ll Impact Multitudes
The Beacon: Rural Hospitals In Missouri Already Struggle To Turn A Profit. Medicaid Cuts Could Force Some To Close
The 19th: Pregnant People in Rural Parts of the Country Are Running Out of Places to Give Birth
UpNorthNews: Rural Health Care Faces ‘Death Spiral’ From GOP Medicaid Cuts
Capital B: Medicaid Cuts Endanger Life-Saving Care for Black Families in Rural America
Oregon Public Broadcasting: As Providence Announces Layoffs, Oregon CEO Warns More May Be Coming
Honolulu Star Advertiser: Hawaii Hospitals Brace for Cuts to Medicaid
WFAA: Rural Texas Hospitals Facing Risk of Closure, Cutting Services Amid Medicaid Cuts and Financial Strain
KLC Journal: ‘Tomorrow Is Not Guaranteed’: Medicaid Cuts Worry Kansas Hospitals and Nursing Homes
WTTW: Illinois Faces Looming Health Crisis as Medicaid Cuts Threaten Coverage, Hospitals and Rural Access
KAZU: “There’s Parts of This We Just Can’t Prepare For.” Local Health Providers Brace for Medicaid Cuts
Ohio Capital Journal: Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt All Ohioans, Economists Say
Tri-City Herald: Warning: Tri-Cities Will Feel Pain of Federal Changes to Health Care
Asheville Citizen-Times: Opinion: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Deplete Medicaid Coverage, Close Rural Hospitals