After Obamacare cuts, hospitals report more uninsured patients
Trump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
Impressive that they managed to get Obama’s name in the headline, but they don’t mention the guy that actually did the cuts
Trumps doing. It’s horrendous 😡😡
At least it is also too expensive and risky to pursue an education to work in health care
I'm sure they'll come up with one of their brilliant solutions, such as denying emergency care to people if they can't pay up front. Let them all die in the street. That will be their solution.
Remind me again, who pays for the healthcare costs of the uninsured?
Closing rural hospitals to open rural concentration camps.
When I went to the ER recently (for what turned out to be a minor issue, fortunately) I was told I had to wait 18 hours before I could be seen. The reason: the waiting room was overflowing with people using the ER as their primary care physician
I honestly can’t picture working in a system where you have to decide how to treat a patient based on whether they have insurance. The VA is not perfect, but practicing medicine based on what the patient needs vs what they can afford is the only way to go. Everyone deserves care like this.
Hey, it’s almost like Medicaid and marketplace coverage losses —> hospitals’ uncompensated care —> hospital closures was a completely predictable path amid attacks on Medicaid and the ACA. Spoiler: It’s Republicans who’re getting screwed the most. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
Their solution will be to get rid of EMTALA.
Plus Trump Administration is deporting immigrant home health care workers so even more ER visits and cost shifting bsky.app/profile/pgou...
Coming up on #KTLA: Millions of Americans are now turning to the ER for healthcare after losing Affordable Care Act coverage. That means higher costs for insured patients as hospitals pass along the expense of treating the uninsured
Not to mention six hour waits… or longer to be seen.
How long before the Republicans decide that ERs don’t need to treat the uninsured?
Just another Trump mess for the incoming Democratic President to fix. Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it
Oh no!!! This was an anticipated effect, yet they just said, "Let them Eat Cake." SMDH. This is bad and will only get worse ...
And increased costs for states and counties that offset some of the costs for uninsured patients.
Charity care up 20% because Republicans killed enhanced subsidies. Medicaid cuts haven't fully hit yet. People are dying.
Guess who is fully insured with A+ healthcare? Republican Congress! The very people who have voted yours away! Keep winning MAGA & any GOP apologist! 😒
Nurses and other direct patient caring staff will lose their jobs. The ones who remain will be more overworked and burn out faster.