A report at the beginning of this month from the Sheps Center for Services Research at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill showed that more than 300 rural hospitals, including seven in West Virginia, are at risk due to Medicaid’s cuts in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act”. (Jack Yen Joy Photography | Getty Images)
The proposed cuts in Medicaid in the Budget Supply Act of Congress have “disadvantageous” effects on the municipalities in West Virginia, the head of a state organization for rural health organizations on Monday told reporters.
Seven rural hospitals in West Virginia would have the risk of closure if the cuts of health care in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act”, Rich Sutphin, Executive of the West Virginia Rural Health Care Association, will be on Monday.
This number includes an independent rural hospital in West Virginia. According to a report published on Monday by the USAA national impartial organization that works for consumers in healthcare.
Sutphin said the cuts would affect a rural, independent hospital in central -West -virginia, which is the only provider of primary and emergency care for six or seven counties. The hospital, which is not named, also operates a medical emergency service and a qualified care facility, he said.
(*7*) said Sutphin. “So you not only lose access to basic care, lose your Medicaid cover and probably delay the treatment of things such as diabetes and heart disease that are forerunners for heart attacks and lines, but will also lose access to emergency services in order to bring them to tertiary centers.
“So these types of cuts become really harmful to the communities in West Virginia with real effects and almost immediately,” said Sutphin.
Sutphin’s comments came during a press call on Monday, which was organized by the USA.
Nationally, around 400 rural, independent hospitals in 26 countries are at risk if the “a large, beautiful draft law” is signed in the law, the report says.
“Many rural independent hospitals are already faced with hard times, many with negative net income, and this legislation would push much more into the red,” said Anthony Wright, Managing Director of Families USA, in a statement on Monday. “These proposed Medicaid cuts and covers could be the last blow for many independent rural hospitals all over America. Medicaid is often the biggest limit in the budgets of these rural hospitals, and the reduction of the paying patients and the increase in the non -compensated care, in addition to direct shortening, would be devastating.”
The US representative house lasts last The month happened just a version of the invoice That would reduce Medicaid by more than 700 billion US dollars – the largest in the history of the program. The legislation would carry out the requirements for work reporting and will make around 15 million people in the next few years to lose their health insurance, say analysts.
The Senate version of the law would cut Medicaid even more And expand the proposed work requirements for the program.
A Report at the beginning of this month From the Sheps Center for Services Research at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, found that more than 300 rural hospitals, including seven in West Virginia, are at risk due to reductions.
Rhonda Rogombé, Analyst for Health Policy of the West Virginia Center for Household and Politics, said that the additional documents requirements that the law provides would lead to people losing their health insurance despite otherwise qualified qualifications.
“This will affect entire communities … hospitals in West Virginia, which are dependent on Medicaid, are exposed to the risk of closure, and if a hospital is excluded, this affects everyone, not just participants and medicaid,” she said.
West Virginia Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, both Republicans, have announced that they support the work requirements for the health program.
“Biblical, you should work”, ” Justice said reported in an interview with The Independent. “We have taken away the dignity and hope and faith of many people where they are hopeless, they think they can’t.”
In a recent interview with CNBCCapito said you should get those who need snap or medicaid services, but there are people in the programs that do not qualify.
“But what happened here is that there are people with these advantages, both advantage programs that do not deserve to be there or not to qualify and to stay for one reason for one reason,” said Capito. “We have to rinse this. If you get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse of the system so that it is there for the basic people who need it.”
Rogombe said that the changes to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act will have a significant impact on West Virginia in the legislation. The Senate’s draft law would boost the costs for people Inscribed in plans on the state’s health insurance market, as the tax credits did not fall into the end of the year.
“We will see the non -insured installment that has been historically low since the introduction of these flexibility within the ACA plan, we will see the historically high, non -insured rates again, and that will have devastating effects on the quality of life in our state,” she said.
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