GOP cuts to Medicaid could threaten rural hospitals

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GOP cuts to Medicaid could threaten rural hospitals

Nathan Posner // Anadolu via Getty Images GOP cuts to Medicaid could threaten rural hospitals Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado, received more than 59,000 patient visits last year. That’s enough to treat everyone in Cortez and surrounding Montezuma County twice. Staff call the small hospital a bedrock of both medical care and the local economy.  But warnings that the Republican-controlled federal government might cut Medicaid fundi…

Budzinski Concludes District-Wide Tour to Protect Medicaid

Budzinski made stops in Carlinville, Granite City, Champaign, and Decatur Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski SPRINGFIELD, IL — Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) concluded her district-wide tour of hospitals and community health centers, highlighting the devastating consequences of proposed Medicaid cuts being pushed by Congressional Republicans.      Over the past week, Budzinski visited health care facilities across Illinois’ 13th district to sp…

California showdown over Medicaid as GOP approves massive cuts

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission.House Republicans recently passed a budget plan that could slash up to $880 billion over 10 years from Medicaid, a program that provides health insurance to 83 million low-income Americans.For the past several months, health care advocates have been ramping up pressure on three vulnerable California Republicans in Congress — Reps. Ken Calvert, Young Kim and David V…