Rural hospitals are preparing for President Donald Trump's Signature tax and expenditure cut bills Signed into law this summer.
Dozens of people already on the edge have warned that they face the prospect of shutting down or reducing services as the bill cuts to Medicaid, which is funded by federal and state governments and provides healthcare coverage for the poorest Americans.
At a cabinet meeting Tuesday, celebrated Americans, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Inject cash “It is in rural hospitals nationwide.
“Currently, we spend 7% of Medicaid in rural hospitals,” he said. “They get the short end of the stick.” To address this, he said a new fund (established in legislation) would provide a $10 billion additional fee for rural hospitals.
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Proposition: “Under the Rural Village Transformation Program, we give them an additional $10 billion a year. We are injecting 50% of cash, rural hospitals and rural communities. This will be the largest injection in history and it will restore and revitalize these communities.”
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Indeed, Republicans have established a new fund that will set aside $10 billion a year for rural hospitals, providers and clinics. But they did this to offset the obvious cuts that the legislation expected to continue rural hospitals will continue, which will also cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade, mainly from Medicaid.
The legislation is expected to lose health insurance by about 10 million people. Most people lose Medicaid.
This will leave many hospitals with patients who are unable to pay for emergency services. These changes are expected to hit rural areas, with as many as one in four Americans relying on Medicaid to pay for health insurance, especially hard work.
Estimates suggest that rural hospitals may be lost, especially $58 billion and $137 billion Due to the provisions of the bill, in the next decade. According to one analyze by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
this Rural Health Transformation Plan Established in the law should prevent closures. From 2026 to 2030, it sets aside $10 billion a year.
Hospitals and health industries expert It has been warned that while the fund provides lifelines to rural hospitals, it does not save them.
“This certainly won't completely offset that,” Timothy McBride, a health policy analyst at the University of Washington, said of the fund.
Then there is the question of how hospitals can actually get funding. Of the $50 billion, half will be distributed evenly across all states. The other half will be segmented according to a formula developed by Medicare and Medicaid Service Centers, which examines the rural population of the state and the number of low-income people it serves.
But splitting some funds evenly between states will eventually give some states, even states with few rural hospitals, the same amount of money as states with a large number of rural hospitals.
“They all have demands, but at least half of the funds will be distributed equally, which doesn't make sense,” McBride said. “Some states don't have a lot, while others have a lot.”
A Kennedy spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
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