Government Shutdown, Hospital Shutdowns: Rural Georgia Pays the Price for Cuts
A hospital in rural Georgia closed one of its units Monday, and Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff referred to the news as a real-world consequence of cuts to Medicaid. “This is what happens when you gut the Medicaid program,” Ossoff told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It defunds hospitals and nursing homes, and now, when pregnant women in northeast Georgia go into labor, they may have to drive an hour or an […]
