Key Point: “In northeast Georgia, a hospital closed its maternity ward. In rural New Hampshire, a community health center shuttered. And in Iowa, a Des Moines hospital system laid off dozens of employees and closed a clinic. All these providers cited President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda package, which slashed more than $1 trillion in federal support for health care, as a factor in their decisions.” 

CNN: Hospitals are making cuts after ‘big beautiful bill,’ fueling Democrats’ midterm attacks

By David Wright and Tami Luhby

• In northeast Georgia, a hospital closed its maternity ward. In rural New Hampshire, a community health center shuttered. And in Iowa, a Des Moines hospital system laid off dozens of employees and closed a clinic.

• All these providers cited President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda package, which slashed more than $1 trillion in federal support for health care, as a factor in their decisions.

• The “big, beautiful bill” will increase that fiscal strain, experts say. Its historic cuts to Medicaid, which include adding the first-ever work requirement to the safety net program, are expected to leave 7.5 million more people uninsured over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Other provisions push up that figure to a total of 10 million.

• Nearly 100 of these hospitals that are financially distressed and disproportionately provide care to Medicaid enrollees are most at risk of shutting down or limiting services because of the bill, according to a November analysis by Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health.