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applegrove

(126,281 posts)
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 02:21 AM Apr 29

Rural hospitals are the only source of healthcare for millions of Americans. Often, they are also the largest employer




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Rural hospitals are the only source of healthcare for millions of Americans. Often, they are also the largest employer in the community. But rural hospitals depend on Medicaid, and cuts could force 190 of them to close.
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Rural hospitals are the only source of healthcare for millions of Americans. Often, they are also the largest employer (Original Post) applegrove Apr 29 OP
I get the feeling a lot of rural folk have zero clue how things work Skittles Apr 29 #1
Or how blue state income tax is what pays for lots applegrove Apr 29 #2
They were made pawns by goppers following ACA passage BaronChocula Apr 29 #3
In Mi, about 70% of Trump voters live in urban or mostly urban counties Kaleva Apr 29 #5
My local hospital closed when Biden was in office Kaleva Apr 29 #4

Skittles

(164,814 posts)
1. I get the feeling a lot of rural folk have zero clue how things work
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 02:34 AM
Apr 29

or who actually cares about them

BaronChocula

(2,822 posts)
3. They were made pawns by goppers following ACA passage
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 04:32 AM
Apr 29

Rural hospitals had much to gain by ACA benefits (so fuck the noise that Democrats have forgotten rural America), but gopper guvs and statehouses stood on cowardly principle and delayed acceptance of the Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, gopper physicians in rural areas who supported the gopper stonewallers pleaded for relief. The cultural voting patterns of those people will be their suicide and I only have sympathy for the ones who are committed to voting wisely, but get shafted by the moronic majority that surrounds them.

Kaleva

(39,495 posts)
5. In Mi, about 70% of Trump voters live in urban or mostly urban counties
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 09:39 AM
Apr 29

About as many people in Wayne County, metro Detroit area, voted for Trump as did in all of the Upper Peninsula and much of the northern half of the Lower Peninsula combined.

Also, turnout for Harris in 2024 in Mi was less then it was for Biden in 2020. Particularly in blue urban areas. About 65,000 fewer people voted for Harris then for Biden.

Kaleva

(39,495 posts)
4. My local hospital closed when Biden was in office
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 09:33 AM
Apr 29

It's now an hour ride by ambulance to the nearest hospital

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