RonSupportsYouDue to Republican Party cuts to Medicaid, @haiku_brian, in the misnamed #BigBeautifulBill, some rural hospitals are permanently shutting down. To try to slow or reduce this disaster, Republicans added $50 billion in rural health care funding. Here is an excellent explanation of this #healthcare situation and why $50 billion is not enough to correct the problem that Republican politicians caused with the #TaxCutsForTheRich bill that they passed:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-does-the-rural-health-fund-in-trumps-megabill-do #politics
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-does-the-rural-health-fund-in-trumps-megabill-do #politics
What experts think of the $50 billion rural health fund in Trump’s big bill
President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" amounts to the largest cut to Medicaid and rollback in health care coverage in history. The Rural Health Transformation Program is being touted as a way to offset the effects of those cuts, but experts are skeptical about its scope and design.