GOP Medicaid cuts would shutter third of rural hospitals as some lawmakers shrug: ‘Hold your nose’

Around one-third of rural hospitals in the United States would close as a result of Medicaid cuts in the House Republican reconciliation bill, and hospitals could be even more greatly affected in the Senate plan. 

Three hundred hospitals are at risk of immediate closure, and another 700, which encompass a third of rural hospitals, would be on shaky financial ground, according to a report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.

So far, Senate Republicans have proposed even deeper cuts that would affect hospitals than the House text proposed. The changes are mainly to how hospitals receive funding as it would amend the Medicaid’s so-called provider tax. States charge extra taxes to medical providers, mainly hospitals and other healthcare providers, and then give the

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