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Adam Schiff: “In my home state of California, we've seen many rural…”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures

Published | Video Starts at 03:37

In rural areas in particular, where there's more reliance on things like Medicaid or even Medicare, fully half of those hospitals are really on a razor's edge. At any given moment. About a third of rural hospitals are at risk. Closure. In my home state of California, we've seen many rural hospitals close. and we've seen others that closed, struggled to reopen. The hospital, for example, in Madera, California, closed about a year or two ago and struggled to reopen. (03:37–03:42)

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Asserts that California has experienced closures of rural hospitals.

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