We met with leadership from Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, asked them what these Medicaid cuts would mean to them. What they told us was that Medicaid, the directed payments program, had been, these are their words, our salvation. 60% of Iowa hospitals have been operating in the red before that program came online. And with these cuts that Ashley Hinson and Joni Ernst both voted for, that Donald Trump signed into law. (03:59–04:04)
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Asserts that 60% of Iowa hospitals were operating at a loss before the Medicaid directed payments program.
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