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 can give more tax breaks to the rich.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined Protect Our Care yesterday for a press call relaunching the Hospital Crisis Watch and a new report 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.
The Latest:
WTOC: Local Rural Hospital Losing Millions of Dollars Following Cuts From One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Las Vegas Sun: Hospital Shortages Catching Up With Underserved Rural Communities
CNN: Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors
KFOR: Clinton Leaders Approve Emergency Funding to Keep Hospital Open Amid Rural Health Care Crisis
The Enterprise: Brockton Hospital Parent Company Cuts Jobs, Services Amid ‘Mounting Financial Pressures’
Boston Globe: UMass Memorial Health Slashes Services as Medicaid Cuts Loom. It May Be a Sign of What’s to Come in Mass. Health Care.
News10: Bellevue Woman’s Center to End Surgical Services, Move to Ellis
The Mercury News: Alameda Health System Confronts ‘Nuclear Option’ Budget After Medicaid cuts
Healthcare Dive: Hospitals Prepare for $149B Cut to Medicaid State-Directed Payments
Bloomberg: A $50 Billion Slush Fund Won’t Save Rural Hospitals
The Nation: Montana Doesn’t Need Any More Rural Ghost Towns, but That’s What Republicans Voted For
The Kansas City Star: Rural Hospitals in Missouri Struggle to Turn a Profit. Medicaid Cuts Could Force Closures
KSBW: Hazel Hawkins Hospital Crisis Deepens as Insight Health Withdraws
Chicago Business: As Medicaid Cuts Loom, Illinois’ Rural Hospitals Face Uncertain Future
KSHB: ‘We Need a Hospital’: Reductions in Medicaid Spending Could Impact Rural Hospitals in Missouri
KFF Health News: Medicaid Cuts Could Have Vast Ripple Effects in This Rural Colorado Community
Daily Montanan: Small Hospitals Facing Difficult Decisions, Painful Conversations With Medicaid Changes
WOUB: How Medicaid Cuts Could Impact Ohio’s Rural Healthcare Systems
Central Oregon Daily News: Bynum Warns Medicaid Cuts Could Shutter Rural Oregon Hospitals at Madras Town Hall
Farm and Dairy: Rural Health Systems at Risk of Closing, Cutting Services After Medicaid Cuts
Empire Press: Medicaid Cuts Spell Uncertainty for Rural Hospitals, Including Those in NCW
Portland Business Journal: State’s 59 Hospitals Ill-Prepared for Looming Cuts
Kansas City Star: Opinion: Medicaid Is a Commitment. Missouri and Kansas Health Is at Great Risk