Saturday, September 27, 2025

Trump's Big Beautiful Rural Hospital Collapse

Hospitals and healthcare clinics across the US have been announcing layoffs, service cuts, and closures in the weeks since Republicans passed a budget law that's estimated to slash spending on Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. Monday reporting by CNN highlighted that Augusta Medical Group is closing three of its rural clinics in Virginia. The company said in a statement earlier this month that the closures were "part of Augusta Health's ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for healthcare delivery."

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"These closures are the congressional Republican agenda in action: cuts to healthcare for rural moms and families, tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires," [Unrig the Economy campaign director Leor] Tal said.

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It's almost like the GOP prioritizes billionaires over their own voters.

Weird.

Well, you were warned and you ignored it. You were just dying to "own the libs" and now you're just gonna be dying.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-25 07:53 AM

Yeah! Just great! Next year our insurance is going to be over $30k a year. And if we lose our hospital, the next one is more than an hour away. Just how I imagined my early 60s.

#2 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-27 10:46 PM

The company I work for just recently made it official we are closing a rural hospital which will result in patients who live near it faced with an hour+ drive to the nearest facility. We were going to close it a few years back but then voters approved medicaid expansion which saved it for a while. The cuts in payments that we've seen this year under Trump has forced our hand. We are working with the county to try to keep it open and continue to provide services that are desperately needed in that area, ie. emergency/maternity/pediatric/geriatric care but I don't think the county is going to be willing to bare enough of the expense to make it feasible for us to maintain a presence.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-09-27 11:36 PM

This is what MAGA wants.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-27 11:41 PM

The company I work for just recently made it official we are closing a rural hospital which will result in patients who live near it faced with an hour+ drive to the nearest facility. We were going to close it a few years back but then voters approved medicaid expansion which saved it for a while. The cuts in payments that we've seen this year under Trump has forced our hand. We are working with the county to try to keep it open and continue to provide services that are desperately needed in that area, ie. emergency/maternity/pediatric/geriatric care but I don't think the county is going to be willing to bare enough of the expense to make it feasible for us to maintain a presence.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

Dude, just send them Ivermectin.

Problem solved.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-28 12:32 AM

"I love the poorly educated."
Donald Trump, 2016

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-28 05:56 AM

This is what MAGA wants.
#4 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

This and more is what they voted for.
Thing is, they thought the harm would be inflicted on someone else.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-28 05:59 AM

What is the job of a President, of a Congress, if not to help the people, help them when in need of medical care, food needs, housing needs, educational needs...
But of course, America is in service to the Trump cult, not the other way around.

#8 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-09-28 08:17 AM

Rural healthcare is an issue my local MAGA congressman brags about fighting for.

He's said absolutely NOTHING about any of this. Even though tens of thousands of people who voted for him will suffer directly.

I think he's afraid to complain for fear of being identified as a domestic terrorist.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-28 08:40 AM

It's happening in Kentucky too. This is what you redcaps voted for.

#10 | Posted by cbob at 2025-09-28 08:50 AM

The only good MAGAT is a dead MAGAT

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-28 11:19 AM

Will these idiots finally get it that they're just expendable proles to be tricked and lied to so they can consolidate power?

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-28 01:14 PM

This has been happening in Okiehomie for some years. Ten rural hospitals have closed in the past 20 years. That pushes more farm folk to relocate to the cities, where their children eventually turn into Dem voters. That leads to more gerrymandering of Tulsa and OKC (Oklahoma City has three Congress members representing the metro area). The districts are fixed, but not the healthcare problem ...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-09-28 04:35 PM

"Hicks don't get sick" - Orange Fat Bastid

#14 | Posted by 2020Rocks at 2025-09-28 08:26 PM

"Will these idiots finally get it that they're just expendable proles to be tricked and lied to so they can consolidate power?"

Nope. A hospital in the eastern Sierra is closing. Bright red part of California. People online are blaming Gavin Newsom and regulations for the closure. F**king morons.

#15 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-09-28 08:46 PM

I think there's also a small hospital closing in olivehurst CA.

#16 | Posted by Tor at 2025-09-28 09:22 PM

For those who don't get rural medicine:

www.cracked.com

#17 | Posted by Tor at 2025-09-28 09:24 PM

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