The ramifications of the GOP gutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations are playing out everywhere. In Iowa, 34 frontline health care workers are being laid off. In Indiana, 48 health care workers are being let go, and a maternity ward is shuttering, putting mothers’ and newborns’ lives in jeopardy. In Pennsylvania, the GOP’s wealth transfer has put up to 14 hospitals at risk of closing their doors. Nationwide, more than 700 hospitals, maternity wards, nursing homes, and other critical providers are at risk of cutting services or shutting down altogether. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) have released a new report exposing the Big, Ugly Bill’s devastating harm to hospitals, patients, and health care workers.
If Trump and congressional Republicans are blind to the political albatross they’ve created, they’ll find out soon enough. At the ballot box in November, parents won’t forget seeing their maternity wards disappearing; frontline health care workers won’t forget being thrown to the curb; and rural Americans won’t forget their clinics vanishing — all because the GOP put billionaire giveaways over working Americans’ lives.
Recent National Coverage
U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Big Ugly Bill Drives Deeper Cuts Into Americans’ Health Care
State Affairs: Funding Crunch for Hospitals as Big Beautiful Bill Takes Effect
MedPage Today: Healthcare Workers Still Not Exempt From H-1B Visa Fee
Axios: Rural Care Could See Impact From Tighter Visa Rules
Becker’s ASC: 7 Hospital, Health System Layoffs in January
RawStory: MAGA Senator’s Pro-Trump ‘Challenge’ Backfires as He’s Hit With Proof He’s Wrong
California
ChicoSol: Clinic’s Abrupt Closure Leaves North State Patients Without Care
Hanford Sentinel: Valley Hospitals, Clinics Brace for Financial ‘Tsunami’ Threatening Health Care Access
Culver City Crossroads: Los Angeles County Supervisors Look to Save Healthcare Funding
Florida
Florida Politics: Mary Mayhew Fears Washington Push to Simplify Policy Could Starve Florida’s Hospitals
Georgia
GPB: Big Changes Are Coming to Rural Health Care Funding. Here’s How Georgia Hospitals Are Preparing
El Adelantado: When There Were No Appointments or Doctors Available, Kroger Supermarket Filled the Gap, Until the Closure of the Little Clinic in Georgia Left Many Families With No Immediate Alternative
The Sun: Kroger Inching Closer to Total Shut Down of ‘Walk-In’ Services at 16 Stores as Chain Pulling Out of State
Indiana
FOX 59: Johnson Memorial Health to Phase Out Maternity Care Services
Daily Journal: Johnson Memorial Health to Close Maternity Unit, Cut About 48 Jobs
Iowa
The Gazette: MercyOne Hospital in Mason City Laying off 34 Employees
Kentucky
WHAS: Rural Kentucky Hospital Could Pause Some Renovations Amid Medicaid Cuts
Maine
Portland Press Herald: Maine’s Hospitals Chase Financial Stability as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Maine Beacon: Affordability Crisis in Maine Renews Push for Universal Health Care
Massachusetts
EMS1: Mass. Hospital CEO Warns Federal Health Care Cuts Could Strain EMS and Emergency Departments
Minnesota
Minnesota Star Tribune: Children’s Minnesota Suspends Pediatric Gender-Affirming Health Services Amid Trump Funding Threats
Mississippi
Mississippi Today: Local, State Officials Vet Plans to Secure Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s Financial Future
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Bulletin: Weeks Medical Center Controversy Puts North Country Health Care System Under Microscope
New York
Crain’s New York Business: Safety-Net One Brooklyn Health Lays off More Than 50 Workers
North Carolina
North Carolina Health News: Medicaid’s Retroactive Safety Net Is Shrinking — Patients, Hospitals Could Feel the Fallout
Ohio
The Ohio Newsroom: Ohio Was Awarded $202 Million for Rural Health. It’s Not Enough to Offset Federal Medicaid Cuts
Pennsylvania
BisNow: Medicaid Cuts Hit Pennsylvania Hard, Up To 14 Hospitals Predicted To Close
Tennessee
6 News: Nurses Speak Out as Sweetwater Hospital Closes Labor and Delivery Department
Washington
Seattle Times: Mary Bridge Leaders Cite Two Federal Threats Behind Gender Clinic Closure
Wisconsin
TMJ4 News: Local Mental Health Care Providers Step In as Red Oak Counseling Patients Left Scrambling for Care