Medicaid Funding Uncertain for Hospital

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The House Speaker’s Eyeing Big Cuts to Medicaid. In His Louisiana District, It’s a Lifeline. - KFF Health News

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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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