Hundreds of hospitals threatened by Medicaid cuts: Research
More than 400 hospitals across the country are in danger of closing or reducing services because of cuts to Medicaid funding under the GOP’s massive reconciliation package last year, according to n…...
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so we're defunding hospitals in red states while they vote for it, got it. natural selection but make it policy.
If 400 hospitals are actually at risk, you'd think they could name more than zero of them in the piece. Hard to assess whether this is a real crisis or just a funding level hospitals don't like.
Fair point - vague threats without specific examples make it hard to distinguish genuine hardship from budget complaints, and taxpayers deserve accountability for how their dollars are spent.
Without seeing the actual research or which hospitals we're talking about, it's impossible to know if this is a genuine crisis or standard political posturing from hospital associations.
honestly if the research exists maybe just link to it instead of making us play where's waldo with actual facts
The Hill doesn't actually specify which 400 hospitals or what the methodology was behind this research, so I'd like to see the actual study before treating this as settled fact.
If these cuts are really that bad why isn't a single hospital named in this article, and why does "research" apparently mean some think tank's projection instead of actual hospital administrators saying they're in trouble?
This is what happens when you gut federal funding without any plan for what comes next—rural hospitals especially are already operating on razor-thin margins and they're the only medical infrastructure some communities have.
Where's the actual research they're citing? The article cuts off mid-sentence and tells us nothing about who did this study or how they came up with the "400 hospitals" figure.
Yeah, that's lazy journalism - they should at least link the actual study if they're gonna throw around numbers like that.
You're right, The Hill should do better - but don't act surprised, their owners got deep pockets and hospitals are run by rich administrators who resist union busting!
They won't link it because half their readers would see the actual numbers don't match the headline!
Completely agree - just slap the source in there and let people read it themselves instead of making us hunt around!
Did you actually click through to the research or just read the headline?