Rural hospitals are at risk of closure, reflecting potential devastation in small towns across the country. Since expanding Medicaid, Montana has seen significant improvements in healthcare access, with a decrease in uninsured patient visits. Preventive care is effectively addressing health concerns early. Despite some Republican resistance, Medicaid reauthorization gained stronger support, ensuring hospitals remained functional. However, recent Congressional votes threaten to reverse these advancements, placing additional burdens on healthcare availability and costs for rural populations.
Across the country, rural hospitals will close, and the empty towns will mirror the quiet halls where doctors and nurses once rushed to heal.
There are now even more Republicans in our state legislature, yet Medicaid's reauthorization passed this year by greater margins.
Preventive care, including breast and colon cancer screening and diabetes and hypertension treatment, continues to address health problems at the front end, rather than when it is already too late.
Now they are home for the summer, facing the very communities whose hospitals and healthcare they just voted to put at risk.
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