Despite GOP lies, distractions, and disinformation, Americans are living with the devastating consequences of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ health care betrayal. From bustling cities to rural small towns, hospitals are shuttering, nursing homes are closing their doors, and rural labor and delivery units are vanishing. All of this chaos and carnage stems from a singular, cruel choice: Republicans’ decision to cut $1 trillion from hard-working people’s health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Now, headlines are spreading around the country like wildfire, playing the treacherous GOP health care betrayal on repeat.
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch is tracking the harm that Donald Trump and Republicans’ spending bill is inflicting on American health care in real time. Just three months after the passage of the bill, nearly 600 providers are closing or at risk because of the GOP health care crisis – a grim milestone. We will continue ensuring that voters know who’s to blame for the deadly Republican health care cuts and hospital closures.
Common Dreams: ‘It Will Kill People’: HHS Proposal Targeting Transgender Healthcare Could Cause Even More Hospitals to Close
Wonkette: Trump-Loving County Loses Labor and Delivery Unit Thanks to Medicaid Cuts
CBS News: The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net
San Francisco Chronicle: From California to Texas, Alarm Grows Over Plan to Cut Federal Hospital Preparedness Funds
Axios: Rural Health Providers Worry About Losing Money Race
Common Dreams: A Rural Health Fund Band-Aid Will Not Staunch the Bleeding
Arizona
AZPM News: Southern Arizona Healthcare Leaders Warn of Devastating Impact From Federal Funding Cuts
Idaho
Idaho Capital Sun: ‘This Perfect Storm:’ How Idaho Medicaid Cuts Could Affect Everyone’s Health Care Access
Maine
Beacon: Rural Mainers Lose Primary Care Access Due to Medicaid Funding Cuts
ABC News: Maine Network Ends Primary Care After Losing Medicaid Due to Trump Defunding Planned Parenthood
Bangor Daily News: Northern Light Health Closing Waterville Walk-in Clinic in November
The Washington Post: Trump’s Abortion-Related Cuts Prompt Maine Clinics to End Primary Care
Maine Morning Star: Maine Family Planning Shutters Primary Care Practices Due to Loss of Medicaid Funding
Massachusetts
Worcester Business Journal: When a Hospital Closes: Central Mass. Emergency Rooms Visits Have Risen Since Nashoba Valley Shuttered, a Situation Expected to Worsen as Hospital Finances Are Increasingly Strained
New Jersey
Crain’s New York Business: Hudson Regional Health May Close Services Without State Funds
North Carolina
NC Health News: Medicaid Funding Shortfall Shutters Statewide Program Helping Moms and Babies
Cardinal & Pine: Without Medicaid, NC Perinatal Collaborative Faces Deadly Closure
WITN: First Alert Investigation: ENC Hospitals Face Multimillion-Dollar Losses From Federal Medicaid Cuts; Services Expected to Suffer
Pennsylvania
Baker’s ASC Review: Pennsylvania ASC Shutters
Gander Newsroom: Wakefield Doula Helping Local Moms as Federal Funding Cuts Impact the Upper Peninsula
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Current: Federal Budget Cuts Create One Big Not So Beautiful Mess in R.I, State Policy Experts Find
Texas
The Optimist (ACU): Texas Rural Hospitals Await the Budget Cut Storm
Dallas News: As Texas Applies for Federal Transformation Funds, Rural Hospitals Struggle to Stay Open
Vermont
Rutland Herland: Rutland Regional Medical Center to Close Pediatric Unit
VTDigger: Rutland Regional Medical Center Shutters Pediatric Inpatient Care
Virgina
The Virginia Independent: Cuts to Medicaid Have Already Begun to Leave Their Mark in Virginia