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34.6% of US Counties Are Now Maternity Care Deserts. In 60% of Recent Closures, It Was the Only Birthing Facility the County Had.

Labor-and-delivery units are one of the first services a financially strained hospital cuts — not because the need is smaller, but because the reimbursement structure makes it the easiest line item to drop. The pattern has been accelerating since 2020, and the same Medicaid cuts reshaping rural hospitals generally are expected to speed it up further.

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700 Rural Hospitals Are Now at Risk of Closing. The States With the Most at Risk Voted by the Widest Margins for the Law Doing It.

A third of the country's remaining rural hospitals are now at risk of closure because of a specific federal Medicaid law — and the five s...

A Yale Study Says Single-Payer Would Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives a Year. Congress Just Cut $911 Billion the Other Direction.

In the same year a Yale School of Public Health study projected that full federalization of US healthcare would save $1.04 trillion and 1...

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