My heart is with the family and the EMS crew, who faced unimaginable moral distress due to systemic failure. Unplanned closures are literally killing people. #RuralHealthCrisis #ABleg #ABpoli

Republicans Broke Rural Healthcare—Then Blamed Democrats Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on Mike Johnson’s Meet the Press appearance where he repeatedly lied about the shutdown being over undocumented immigrants receiving free healthcare, struggled to answe...

“Republicans gutted rural healthcare, let communities suffer, and then pointed fingers at Democrats. This isn’t politics—it’s cruelty. #RuralHealthCrisis #GOPFail” www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

🚨 Alabama is on the brink of a healthcare crisis 🚨
Due to Medicaid cuts:
🏥 27 hospitals are at risk of closing
🚑 19 face immediate danger
💰 Hospitals lose $650M+ in unpaid care annually
📉
#SaveALHospitals #MedicaidMatters #RuralHealthCrisis
@50501alabama.bsky.social
@indivisiblebham.bsky.social

Even in States That Fought Obamacare, Trump’s New Law Poses Health Consequences - KFF Health News GOP lawmakers in 10 states have refused for a decade to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. But when President Donald Trump got another whack at Obamacare, these holdout states went unrewar...

“Directed payments” kept rural hospitals alive ❤️🏥.
TrumpCare will slash them 10% each year starting 2028. ⏳
TrumpCare’s rural hospital “plan”:
🏃‍♂️ Leave office before the disaster bill arrives.
Future presidents get the mess. Voters get the bill. 💸
#TrumpCare #RuralHealthCrisis #Fail #Leadershipfail

Exactly. Digital bracelets and QR codes aren’t healthcare.

They’re surveillance tools dressed up as “innovation.”

Replacing rural hospitals & Medicaid with apps is just high-tech abandonment.

Snake oil—now with Bluetooth.

#MedicalSurveillance #RuralHealthCrisis #NoCareWithoutAccess

Exactly. Closing hospitals while pushing “wearable monitoring” isn’t innovation—it’s abandonment.

Rural communities don’t need more apps.

They need clinics.

Doctors.

Human care.

Try selling that to a farmer who just lost his only ER.

#MedicalSurveillance #RuralHealthCrisis #FollowTheMoney

What experts think of the $50 billion rural health fund in Trump’s big bill President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" amounts to the largest cut to Medicaid and rollback in health care coverage in history. The Rural Health Transformation Program is being touted as a way to offset the effects of those cuts, but experts are skeptical about its scope and design.

$50B in promises, $930B in cuts. Rural America deserves better! Trump's "Rural Health Fund" is a scam. His bill slashes Medicaid by nearly $1T. Over 300 rural hospitals are at risk. The $50B program? Just a fig leaf. This isn’t reform; it’s abandonment. to.pbs.org/40a6RMe #RuralHealthCrisis

Single car on an open country road with the words in the sky, “The farther the drive, the more who die.”

Rural hospitals are vanishing. Nearly 200 have closed, and hundreds more are at risk. The Big Billionaire’s Bill will now speed this up—forcing more families into longer drives, deeper uncertainty, and too often, something far worse. #RuralHealthCrisis
#BigUglyBill #Project2025isAlive

🏥 In Oklahoma, 29,000 nursing home residents rely on Medicaid. The BBB slashes that funding—putting their care at risk.
🩺 47 rural hospitals are at risk.
💔 23 are in immediate danger of closing.
#ProtectMedicaid #RuralHealthCrisis

See the full report at wclangdon@substack.com

1 in 5 rural hospitals is at risk of closure... and Medicaid is often the only lifeline.
#RuralHealthCrisis #MedicaidMatters #AccessIsCare

Washington Regional Medical Center in Plymouth NC is on the brink of closing. Thirteen nearby counties have no hospitals at all.

We’re gonna have to protect rural hospitals. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

#RuralHealthCrisis #MedicaidExpansionNow #HealthcareIsAHumanRight

Federal Funds for Rural Health Care May Be Cut This Medical News article discusses the impact that proposed federal funding cuts for rural health care programs would have on individuals and their communities.

Federal rural health programs face 25% budget cut in 2026 proposal. Critical hospital support and physician recruitment programs at risk despite serving 66M Americans with higher disease rates and limited healthcare access. #RuralHealthCrisis​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“Pro-life”? Then why do rural women have to drive hours for maternity care? GOP policies have shuttered clinics and defunded prenatal programs across rural America.

It's not pro-life—it's pro-control.

#RuralHealthCrisis #ncpol #WeCompetePAC

Rural communities face a $880B Medicaid cut threatening healthcare access and jobs. Read more by CancerTherapyAdvisor HERE ➡️ ow.ly/78ar50VEmUW

#MedicaidMatters #RuralHealthCrisis #HealthEquity #CRSJ #HealthcareJustice #AABACRSJ

The GOP says they support rural women—right before they strip reproductive rights, cut maternal care, and close the only OB clinic for 100 miles.

You can’t claim “family values” while abandoning actual families.

#RuralHealthCrisis #ncpol #WeCompetePAC

Resources to Protect America’s Rural Hospitals from Cyberthreats | AHA News John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, outlines available cybersecurity resources vital to protecting rural hospitals from cyberthreats.

Ransomware isn’t just locking up data—it’s endangering lives. When rural hospitals go dark, entire communities lose their lifeline. Cybersecurity is now frontline medicine.
#HospitalCybersecurity
#RansomwareThreat
#RuralHealthCrisis
#CyberProtection www.aha.org/news/aha-cyb...

Georgia is down to just 4 rural hospitals because GOP leaders refused federal aid to expand Medicaid. Now, Republicans’ new bill to gut Medicaid will shut down even more hospitals, leaving rural communities without care.

#MedicaidMatters #RuralHealthCrisis #GOPFailure

Rural healthcare is in crisis, with hospitals shutting down and access shrinking. Under GOP leadership, rural areas are being abandoned. Everyone deserves quality care, no matter where they live.

#RuralHealthCrisis #ncpol #WeCompetePAC