Baxter Morgan
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first heard Jul 2026
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But if you put this together, it it it constitutes a trillion dollars coming out of the healthcare system over a decade.
It's not like states can it's not like providers can just pick and choose where those cuts hit.
You can't you know, it's not like, you know, if you're if you're running a farm and you need to reduce your your fields by thirty percent, you you know, you just start stop planting less.
They have to, you know, there's a there's an issue of scale in healthcare where because of the large amount of services just supported by those Medicaid dollars, if those contract, states have to make decisions about reducing entire service.
I'm sorry, providers have to make decisions about reducing entire service lines, reducing, you know, closing facilities.
I think that one of the biggest consequences.
of this bill, if it went fully through, would be the increase in health deserts where you would effectively see rural providers close more and people would become more reliant on, you know, uh going to urban centers to receive treatment.
They'd become more dependent on tr emergency transport.
If if they are in, you know, a crisis trauma situation out in a rural area and have to get to the city.
Well, you better have an ambulance.
Well, if you can't if you can't pay the ambulance provider to keep their their lights on, they ain't gonna do anybody any good, um, what anybody needs or not.
And so I think
The the loss is not just to well, it's just the poor people that are going to lose.
This is a sea change in the delivery of healthcare services in America because it is reducing the ability of providers nationwide to cover not just their Medicaid and indigent populations.
but to maintain a a base level of services for everyone.
And historically we had seen um commercial insurance companies kind of overpay a little because they knew that they needed to be supporting certain levels of services in places or else their insureds couldn't get coverage.
Well, now the biggest insurer in the country is is doing a rollback.
And so I I don't think it's just, well, we'll we'll just, you know, we'll just see less poor people in the emergency department.
If anything, you'll see more.
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