Clinic shuts down due to Medicaid cuts

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@buynholdisdead

A clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it.

It seems rural/small town hospitals/clinics have been closing for years.

Closing of Rural Hospitals Leaves Towns With Unhealthy Real Estate

The Surprising Reason Rural Hospitals Are Closing

This apocalypse is happening throughout rural communities across the country. More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the past decade, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (CHQPR), a national policy center that works to improve health care payment systems and whose data have been cited by the Bipartisan Policy Center. About one-third of all rural hospitals in the country are at risk of closing because of financial problems.

If you read the Time article private can get away by underpaying small hospitals.
Larger hospitals have more leverage to negotiate with private insurers

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@eldemonio

Partisanship has everything to do with it. How else can a large population continue to be persuaded to vote against their interests?

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@UpNorthJoe

n the BBB, didn’t they delay cuts till after 2026 midterms ?

Private Equity won’t wait until the Medicaid cuts start. They start stripping the large medical equipment and the high-dollar inventory in the hospital’s storeroom today, in advance of the cuts. Then they’ll accelerate corporate asset stripping and management fees.

Mitt Romney showed the way in the 1990’s.

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