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Adam Schiff: “There are hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to the…”

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

Published June 26, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:34

So it's worth asking what will be the impact on your hospital? Will your hospital stay open? So let's look at the bill itself and what's in it. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to the Medicaid program. Now you'll remember that Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid and you're not going to feel any of it. And your Medicaid is left alone. It's left the same. (00:34–00:39)

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Asserts that the bill includes significant cuts to Medicaid funding.

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“The cuts to health care alone in this bill fund fully one third of the tax cuts for rich people in the bill.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 01:11-01:21
“About a third of rural hospitals are at risk [of closure].”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 03:33-03:36
“It is estimated that thousands of people will lose their lives because of the cuts in this bill.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 04:18-04:26
“North Carolina... would stand to lose about 39 billion in funding for health care.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 04:44-05:00
“If they take 900 billion out of Medicaid, as they're trying to do in this bill, that's going to mean a lot of hospital closures.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 05:26-05:36
“Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 00:39-00:43
“Republicans in the Congress promised they too would not cut Medicaid.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 00:48-00:53
“This bill drastically cuts Medicaid.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 00:57-01:01
“In my home state of California, we've seen many rural hospitals close.”
Adam Schiff's Address on Medicaid Cuts and Rural Hospital Closures | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 03:37-03:42
“The hospital, for example, in Madera, California, closed about a year or two ago and struggled to reopen.”
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