If you live in McCook in the Southwest corner of Nebraska, your health care is about to get a lot worse. The Community Hospital, which serves the community south of North Platte, near the Colorado and Kansas borders, is closing down due to uncertainty over Medicaid cuts.
As we know, Trump signed his budget bill on July 4 that axes $1 trillion from the program and will result in millions losing their health insurance. But the pain goes far deeper, as the citizens of McCook well know. They’re the first community to lose their hospital over these cuts, but sadly, they won’t be the last. Five more hospitals in Nebraska alone could be shutting their doors.
“There are more Trump voters served by rural hospitals than there are independent or left-leaning voters. … There's no schadenfreude. I can't feel at all like, well, you voted for the guy,” notes Lincoln Square Founding Editor Lisa Senecal, adding how “devastating” these cuts are going to be.
Lisa and Executive Editor Susan J. Demas also talk about the deadly floods down in Texas and how cuts to the National Weather Service and FEMA will make natural disasters — that are already being turbo-charged by climate change — even worse for Americans.
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