900 Health Facilities Shutting Down or Risk Collapse As Trump-GOP Cuts 'Ripple Across the Country'

[appalachiablue]

- '900 Health Facilities Shutting Down or at Risk of Collapse as Trump-GOP Cuts ‘Ripple Across the Country,’ Common Dreams, May 5, 2026. Ed.

🥼 “Providers are stretched thin, doing everything they can as resources disappear and the system buckles under the pressure of Republicans cutting more than $1 trillion from healthcare.”
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An advocacy group tracking the impacts of the unprecedented Medicaid cuts that congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump enacted last year said Monday that at least 900 hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities are now shutting down or at risk of closure—a disaster for low-income Americans who lack easy access to care.

Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch project has identified healthcare centers that have closed or are at risk of closing, cutting services, and shutting down wards as they grapple with the impacts of the GOP’s 2025 budget law, which included over $1 trillion in total healthcare cuts over the next decade. More than $900 billion of the cuts will come from Medicaid, which pays hospitals and other providers for services delivered to low-income patients.

“Hospital Crisis Watch has now reached 900 pins, 900 communities where access to care is evaporating as Republicans’ healthcare cuts ripple across the country,” said Brad Woodhouse, president of Protect Our Care. “Providers are stretched thin, doing everything they can as resources disappear and the system buckles under the pressure of Republicans cutting more than $1 trillion from health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.”

“Families are driving further for care, parents are scrambling to find services for their kids, and seniors are being left without the support they need,” Woodhouse continued. “Care is getting harder to access, in too many places, disappearing entirely, and communities are left to deal with the consequences.”.. Early estimates indicate that more than 20,000 Nebraskans could lose Medicaid coverage due to the stringent work requirements and the procedural hurdles the new mandates entail...

- Read More,
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-medicaid-cuts-hospital-closures

[dem4decades]

1. Vote Republican, lose your hospitals. I'm fine with that.

[appalachiablue]

2. I don't know what it will take for them to realize the truth, in the meantime the harm is deep.

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The impacts of the Trump-GOP Medicaid cuts have been felt in both urban and rural areas, despite Republicans’ inclusion of a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund that supporters touted as a way to bolster at-risk healthcare facilities.

Critics of the fund have warned from the start that it would not be nearly enough to offset the devastation caused by massive Medicaid cuts. (The Trump-GOP law includes an estimated $137 billion in cuts to Medicaid in rural areas.)..

[UpInArms]

3. Am certain that many of them are just fine with all the cruelty

From another DU thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221222050

From this article:

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

The family’s anger has subsided some since the baby’s death, in part because of their trust in God’s plan.

“I can sit here and be upset and sad, but this brought me closer to God,” the father said. “I just can’t wait to be with him.”

[appalachiablue]

4. Thanks, what ignorance and damage, it's shocking. I saw the Propublica article.

[dutch777]

5. Rural areas aren't exactly winning after their going for Trump....losing healthcare plus tariff hit to ag businesses.

Will be very interesting what the mid terms looks like in these areas. There was an article I read just a few days ago about a Repug state rep in a rural area that is big dairy country. She was working at the state level to increase ICE enforcement. He local dairy farmers opposed her proposals as they rely heavily on immigrant labor to keep their businesses running. He husband is a sales rep for a company that sells products to dairy farmers and his biggest customers went elsewhere with their business essentially cutting his salary almost completely. What goes around comes around.

[appalachiablue]

8. Thanks for the post, the self destruction is lethal.

[tanyev]

6. America First has made America Worse.

😒

[appalachiablue]

7. Correct, thanks for the post.

[Hey Joe]

9. But...but.... at least we're getting our 2 billion

dollar ballroom!
Think about all of the billionaires, why don’t ya!
/s

[appalachiablue]

10. Der Fuhrer Bunker! nicht ballroom, circulating on a post here. Ha.

[PatSeg]

11. How fast can a leader turn a nation

into a third-world country? Looks like this administration is going to break all historical records.

I knew a second Trump term would be a nightmare, but I had no idea how quickly it could be done. Institutions that took over two centuries to create and develop are being decimated in months. Once he sets this destructive scheme in place, it takes on a life of it own and we watch the domino effect play out.

Damn, it all looks so intentional, as if he wants to be the destroyer of nations.

[dave99]

14. shitstain NEVER liked the US

[PatSeg]

15. You know, that's a good point

Clearly he doesn't really like much about the U.S. other than the money and opportunities. He cares nothing about democracy or any of the things most people consider synonymous with "America". He only likes the parts that benefit him.

[appalachiablue]

16. Destruction of the nation's institutions, chaos and descent into a 3rd world country. Hell.

The agenda that has been in place for a while.

Thanks for the good post.

[PatSeg]

17. Yes, I think the destructors have been

with us, working behind the scenes for a long time. I believe that even they are surprised at how quickly this is all transpiring.

Sometimes I have to stop and ask myself "why". They can certainly achieve power and wealth without destroying everything and in the end, they will also destroy themselves. This is some form of utter insanity.

[PatSeg]

18. Accidental dupe

[mwb970]

12. What percentage of the people this hurts voted for trump? 70%? 80%?

[cer7711]

13. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

On all involved who are responsible for this outcome in what is still the richest country on the planet.

[pansypoo53219]

19. they made their bed.

sleep well turds.

[dalton99a]

20. Kick

[Initech]

21. We have got to get these fucking maniacs out of power. Whatever it takes.