1. Rural Hospitals Preparing to Lose Billions of Dollars from President Donald Trump Signature Tax and Expense Reduction Invoice I signed the law this summer.
Dozens already on the brink of the brink are warning that they are facing the prospect of closures or reductions in services to reduce Medicaid, which is funded by federal and state governments, providing health insurance to the poorest Americans.
At cabinet meeting Tuesday, he celebrated American, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claiming it was historic “. Cash injection ‘ is moving towards rural hospitals across the country.
“Now we spend 7% of our Medicaid dollars on rural hospitals,” he said. “They get a short edge of the stick.” To address that, he said the new funds established by the law will be given to rural hospitals to $10 billion in extra hospitals each year.
Let’s take a look at the facts.
Claim: Kennedy talks about “one big beautiful bill law.” “We provide an extra $10 billion a year under the Rural Change Program. We are increasing the infusion of 50% cash, rural hospitals and rural communities. It will be the biggest infusion of history, and will restore and revive these communities.”
Fact: There’s more to it than that 900 pages Bill let go of the White House than Kennedy.
It is true that Republicans have established new funds that secure $10 billion each year in rural hospitals, healthcare providers and clinics. But they did that to offset the significant cuts that rural hospitals are expected to endure as a result of laws that cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade, primarily from Medicaid.
Approximately 10 million people are expected to lose their health insurance from the law. Most people lose Medicaid.
This leaves many hospitals with patients who cannot afford to pay for emergency services. The change is expected to hit one in four Americans who rely on Medicaid for health insurance, particularly in severe rural areas.
In particular, it is estimated that rural hospitals may lose in between. $58 billion and $137 billion For the next decade, due to the provisions of the bill. As many as 300 rural hospitals were at risk of closure due to the GOP bill. analysis Cecil G. Sheps Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Rural Health Change Program What is established by law is to prevent these closures. From 2026 to 2030, we secured $10 billion a year.
Hospitals and the Health Industry Experts While throwing lifelines into rural hospitals, the fund warned that it would not save them all.
“This certainly won’t completely offset that,” said Timothy McBride, a health policy analyst at the University of Washington, of the fund.
Next comes the question of how hospitals actually access funds. Half of the $50 billion will be split evenly across all states. The other half will be split based on a formula developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which examines the state’s rural population and the number of low-income people it serves.
But if you divide some funds evenly across states, they will ultimately provide the same amount as a state with a considerable number of rural hospitals, even a few states with few rural hospitals.
“They all have needs, but at least half of the funds are evenly distributed, but that doesn’t make sense,” McBride said. “There aren’t many in many states, and there are many in other states.”
A Kennedy spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
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