As we celebrate sixty years of Medicaid and Medicare, these life-saving programs are under attack from Donald Trump and Republicans. The GOP spending bill made the largest cut to health care in history, slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) just to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Not only will this bill rip health care from millions of hardworking Americans and raise costs for millions more, but it will also put hundreds of rural hospitals, nursing homes, and care facilities across the country at risk of cutting services or closing their doors, leaving state and local economies to suffer. 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.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch is tracking the harm Donald Trump and Republicans’ spending bill is inflicting on America’s health care system in real time – community by community, hospital by hospital. Hospitals are closing, care is vanishing, and the American people deserve to know who’s responsible.
Vermont Public: UVM Health Network Announces Layoffs, Over $180M in Cuts
Hudson Valley Post: Massive Wave of Hospital Closures Looms Over Upstate New York
Mankato Free Press: Crisis in the Heartland: Rural Hospitals Face Closure Under Medicaid Cuts
Wisconsin Public Radio: Already in the Red, Rural Hospitals Across the Midwest Brace for Medicaid Changes
IPM Newsroom: Rural Hospitals Issue Warning in Wake of Federal Cuts
The National Memo: What Will GOP Do For Missouri’s Poorest County? Kill Their Hospital
Lite FM: New Report Flags 3 Idaho Hospitals at Risk of Closing
Syracuse.com: The Medicaid Fallout in CNY: Worse ER Waits, Staff Cuts and Scaled Back Services Over Time
Mendocino Voice: Medicaid Cuts Could Threaten Rural Health Care in Mendocino County
Washington State Standard: Washington’s Safety Net Clinics Face ‘Perfect Storm’ of Federal Threats
The Tri-City Record: New Mexico Senators Demand Transparency On Rural Health Fund As Hospital Closures Loom
Courier Journal: Opinion: Medicaid Cuts in Kentucky Will Devastate Our Most Vulnerable: Nursing Homes
Oregon Capital Insider: Opinion: The Trump-GOP Budget Is a Dire Threat to Oregon’s Patients, Hospitals and Nurses
Magnolia Tribune: Opinion: “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Adoption Signals Both Danger and Opportunities for the State’s Rural Hospitals
Reno Gazette Journal: Opinion: If You Think Trump’s New Law Doesn’t Impact You, Think Again