Rural hospital’s closure portends dark future under Trump’s bill

“One Big Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump is not even the law yet, but that already has negative consequences for Americans.

A Nébraska Rural hospital announced on Wednesday that it would close its doors after more than 30 years, explicitly quoting the cups expected in Medicaid that Congress should adopt the Trump bill.

“Unfortunately, the current financial environment, driven by the federal budgetary reductions anticipated in Medicaid, allowed us to continue to exploit all our services, many of which have been confronted with important financial challenges for years,” said Troy Bruntz, CEO of the community hospital of McCook, Nebraska, said In a declaration to a local media.

Indeed, hospital associations have warned that the massive cups of Medicaid in the GOP bill will decimate rural hospitals, whose patients are often beneficiaries of Medicaid. The non -partisan congress budget office believes that About 17 million people will not be provided During the next decade due to the reductions in the bill, health care expenses. The majority of people who lose health care have currently Medicaid, who covers 71 million Americans and more than 41% of births In the United States.

For example, the American Hospital Association, a large industrial group, said In a statement after the Senate adopted the bill, “this legislation will result in the displacement of 11.8 million Americans from their health care coverage while they go from the insured to an uninsured status. It will also show unpaid care for hospitals and health systems, which will affect their ability to serve all patients. Closings, in particular in rural areas and badly served.”

A group of hospitals and health care systems in Louisiana warned The president of the House Mike Johnson, whose district is in the state, that the bill he makes through his room will devastate the hospitals which serve his voters.

“The impact of the arrangements in the version of the United States Senate of the One Big Beautiful Bill law reflects an annual loss estimated at more than $ 4 billion in Total Medicaid funding for Louisiana health care providers.” These economic consequences pale compared to the damage that will be caused to state residents, whatever the insurance status, which will no longer be able to take care need.”

However, rather than trying to correct the bill to avoid horrible consequences, the Republicans are rather lying on what it does.

Several GOP members claimed that Medicaid cuts have an impact on people who refuse to work.

“Listen, if you are valid without dependents and you choose not to work, well, you should not be on a social protection program. This is the result,” said Maryland Republican Republican representative of Maryland said In an interview with right -wing propaganda Newstlet Newsmax, adding: “You should be out of public public. Yes, you will lose your Medicaid coverage. Get a job and get coverage by a job if necessary. ”

But valid people who choose not to work are a tiny part of the beneficiaries of Medicaid. Actually, according to to KFF health policy:

Among adults under the age of 65 with Medicaid who do not receive services from social security disability programs, additional security income (SSI) and social security disability insurance (SSDI), and who are not also covered by Medicare (called below as “Medicaid adults”), 92% worked in full time (64%) Responsibilities, responsibilities, responsibilities, disease or compensation or compensation. The remaining 8% of Medicaid adults said they were retired, unable to find work or did not work for another reason.

The Republicans should adopt Trump’s bill after the minority chief in the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber puts an end to a successful speech in which he reverses the Republicans for having injured the poor to pay the tax reductions that benefit the rich.

“The leaders require courage, condemnation, compassion – and yet what we have seen from this administration and co -conspirators on the republican side of the aisle is cruelty, chaos and corruption,” said Jeffries in the speech, according to at the New York Times.

Jeffries added that the GOP bill is “an extraordinary assault against the health care of the American people”.

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