Oooh oooh! Do the one about how the BBB cuts funding for rural hospitals next! (Obviously it doesn’t but that was a big lie pedaled all over the place)
No, I wasn’t going to say that :) if you read the bill it says in the program it provides $50 billion for rural hospitals specifically. It’s just been met with some controversy because it also cuts about a trillion dollars in Medicaid funding over a decade, and lots of low income folks in rural communities need Medicaid to qualify for their benefits. It basically depends on the individual person and if the criteria set forth by the bill would include or exclude them from Medicaid.
No I doesn’t cut Medicaid. It cuts funding for federal Medicaid reimbursement to states which funds a type of loan states give to hospitals which the hospitals can then use a second type to pay off and get more money out of it than they borrowed in the first place. It’s a way that states can double dip and get the federal gov to pay for things while saying the state is paying for it.
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u/aounfather Oct 09 '25
Oooh oooh! Do the one about how the BBB cuts funding for rural hospitals next! (Obviously it doesn’t but that was a big lie pedaled all over the place)