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Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans' $1T Medicaid cut

By Associated Press  
   July 07, 2025

More than 300 hospitals could be at risk for closure under the budget resolution signed July 4 by President Donald Trump, according to an analysis by the Cecil G. Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Even as Congress haggled over the controversial bill, a health clinic in the southwest Nebraska town of Curtis announced Wednesday it will close in the coming months, in part blaming the anticipated Medicaid cuts.

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