Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stated the Thursday passage of the GOP’s spending invoice symbolizes a “darkish day for rural America,” citing cuts to federal funding for medical facilities and hospitals in distant areas.
“Whereas Republicans have fun the passage of the biggest Medicaid reduce in historical past, the Curtis Medical Middle in Nebraska introduced it’s going to shut down because of these horrific cuts — the primary of many hospitals to shut,” Sanders wrote in a Thursday statement on X.
“It is a darkish day for rural America and for our nation,” he added.
An hour prior, Group Hospital in McCook, Neb., introduced its closure.
“Sadly, the present monetary setting, pushed by anticipated federal finances cuts to Medicaid, has made it unattainable for us to proceed working all of our providers, lots of which have confronted important monetary challenges for years,” Troy Bruntz, President and CEO of Group Hospital, stated in a information launch, in line with Nebraska Public Media.
Six of the state’s hospitals may very well be compelled to shut attributable to provisions within the “huge, stunning invoice.”
“We at present have six hospitals that that we really feel are in a essential monetary state, three which are in an impending type of closure or conversion over to the agricultural emergency hospital mannequin,” Jed Hansen, govt director for the Nebraska Rural Well being Affiliation, stated throughout a gathering this week, as reported by Nebraska Public Media.
“We might doubtless see the closures inside a yr to 2 years of as soon as [the bill is] absolutely enacted.”
Different states are going through comparable shutdowns attributable to lowered funding underneath the Republican backed invoice authorized by Congress.
A complete of 760 hospitals are liable to closure nationwide, in line with Becker’s Hospital Review.
Fifteen hospitals in New York are additionally liable to closure in GOP districts, in line with the Fiscal Policy Institute.