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Louisiana hospital CEO says Medicaid cuts could make it harder for his hospital to repay loans.
Medicaid is the joint federal-state health program for low-income people and the disabled.
Louisiana House Speaker Mike Johnson is leading the GOP charge to upend the program.
He pushed a budget resolution through the House that calls for cutting at least $880 billion over a decade from a pool of funding.
Medicaid recipients in Johnson ’s district, told about GOP plans to cut the program, said their lives are hard enough in a state where the minimum wage is $ 7.25 an hour.
In Vivian , near the borders with Arkansas and Texas , close to half of the 2,900 residents live in poverty.
“Most everybody you know is on Medicaid here,” said Doris Luccous , 24 .
Money accounts for about 15% of the DeSoto health system’s budget.
“We are using that money to invest in the next 50 years of Desoto Parish , to build a hospital that will be sustainable,” CEO says.
The supplemental payments help pay to provide mental health services at three outpatient clinics.
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