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Louisiana Hospitals Warn Congress (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2025 OP
LA healthcare leaders warn of dire consequences of proposed Medicaid cuts struggle4progress Jul 2025 #1
Mike Johnson is a Louisiana Rep. biocube Jul 2025 #2
Wait until a crazy pissed off MAGAt takes one of their congressman chicoescuela Jul 2025 #3
Too late JustAnotherGen Jul 2025 #4

struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
1. LA healthcare leaders warn of dire consequences of proposed Medicaid cuts
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 09:14 PM
Jul 2025

The open letter to the U.S. Senate says its version of the bill would hurt patients, communities and the economy.
BY CHAD CALDER | Staff writer Jun 28, 2025

The heads of seven major hospital systems and healthcare organizations in Louisiana penned an open letter to the U.S. Senate on Saturday warning that proposed Medicaid cuts would be devastating for patients, the industry and state and local economies.

The letter says the cuts proposed in the current Senate version of the massive reconciliation package working its way through Congress — known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — would be "historic in their devastation and warrant our shared advocacy to protect our patients and the care we provide them at our hospitals and clinics."

The letter says the cuts threaten rural communities in particular because their hospitals are already in a precarious financial state ...

https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-medicaid-cuts/article_60f44dfc-11c0-447c-9379-746d869b8981.html

chicoescuela

(3,211 posts)
3. Wait until a crazy pissed off MAGAt takes one of their congressman
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 09:44 PM
Jul 2025

hostage. Maybe the right will wake up then? Probably not, just the cost of doing business according to tsf and pee wee German.

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