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Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients

By Stateline  
   September 05, 2025

President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law will likely force more than half the states to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals that treat Medicaid patients, a change critics warn will be particularly harmful to rural hospitals struggling to stay afloat.

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