#rural-hospitals

#rural-hospitals

Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed semitrailer. Once inside, she lay down on a platform that technicians slid into an MRI machine. Jacobi hoped the scan would help pinpoint the source of the pain in her shoulders. The mobile MRI unit visits Southwest Healthcare Services, the hospital in Bowman, North Dakota, each Wednesday.

The bill would cut federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over the next decade.

I just hope that the people who are making these decisions have thought deeply about it and have some context of the real-world implications, he said, because it's going to affect us as a hospital and going to affect our patients.

Trump's bill proposes cuts to Medicaid and social services, jeopardizing healthcare access and functioning of rural hospitals, thereby threatening lives of vulnerable Americans.