Democrats are increasingly claiming that America’s hospitals are the victims of the “largest health care cuts in history.” Yet, the Medicaid reforms in last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) did little to slow the program’s inexorable growth. The hospital industry is at an unprecedented scale, and accounts for the bulk of the nation’s net job growth over the past year.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats argue that “hospitals and clinics are closing, workers are being laid off, patients are losing insurance coverage, and states are scrambling to fill budget gaps.” After only 6 months, they blame OBBB for “21 hospital closures and service reductions” and “6,440 employees laid off.” The progressive organization Public Citizen claims that 446 hospitals are at-risk of closure, as a result of the legislation.
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Chris Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.
