States and rural health advocacy groups are sounding the alarm that Congress’ slashing of Medicaid will devastate already financially fragile rural hospitals

One analysis reveals that over 300 hospitals may be in danger of closing under the Republican legislation which will slash roughly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding over ten years.

West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice (R) says he is a “no” on the amendment proposed by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to stop able-bodied adults without dependent children from receiving the 9-to-1 federal

The House passed Senate Republicans’ version of the reconciliation package on Thursday 218-214 in a largely party line vote. Only two Republicans joined Democrats and voted against the bill — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).

But almost all of the Republican holdouts on the megabill flipped and voted to advance the legislation early Thursday — setting up a final vote. During the all-nighter, GOP leaders kept the procedural vote open for almost six hours as they worked to flip 12 votes.