Trump and Republicans’ So-Called ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Cause 338 Rural Hospitals to Shut Down, Taking Care From Small Towns and Rural Communities While Cutting Jobs and Hurting Economies
Washington, D.C. – Protect Our Care released a new report and launched a new digital ad raising the alarm on the devastating impact Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill could have on hospitals in small towns and rural communities across the country. This Republican bill could cause 338 hospitals to close their doors or scale back services. People across the country, including seniors, people with disabilities, expectant mothers, and cancer patients, would have to travel further to get care and experience lengthier wait times in emergency rooms. Hospital employees would lose their jobs and local economies would suffer. The ad and report come as House Democrats hold Save Our Hospitals Week and Republicans continue to advance their Big, Ugly Bill through the Senate.
This is part of Protect Our Care’s 10-million-dollar “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign and follows ads holding key House and Senate Republicans’ feet to the fire as they continue to push this devastating bill forward. It would make the largest cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in history, ripping health care coverage away from 16 million Americans, in order to fund massive tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals and corporations.
“This bill is nothing short of an attack on the American people,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Not only would it rip health care away from millions, it would gut hospitals and vital services, leaving rural communities to suffer all to fund tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. But Republicans are hell bent on forcing these draconian health care cuts forward anyway. No one should lose access to life-saving care and coverage just so the wealthiest people and corporations can pay less in taxes.”
Sample Ad Script:
Narrator: When you’re in trouble, you want a hospital. A place that’s close, that’s ready, that’s there when you need it.
But Donald Trump’s so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ would enact the largest cut to Medicaid in history, slashing over $400 billion from our hospitals and putting care for everyone at risk.
The ambulance may come, but it won’t matter if they have nowhere to take you. Longer drives, fewer doctors, more lives in danger.
Tell Republicans: “Don’t let Trump gut our hospitals to pay for tax cuts for the rich.”