We did not cut Medicaid and we did not cut the funding for the rural hospitals. In fact, in the big, beautiful bill, as you know, There's a big fund, a $50 billion fund for the rural hospitals and underserved hospitals. and we built in flexibility for the states to be able to work out their funding mechanisms. So there's a lot of alarm and a lot of misinformation out there right now that's just simply not true. (04:45–04:51)
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Asserts the existence of a $50 billion fund for rural and underserved hospitals.
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