healthcare

3 briefs

power 2026-04-14

446 Hospitals Are Now at High Risk of Closing. Most Are in Trump Country.

A new Public Citizen analysis names 446 hospitals across 44 states at heightened risk of closure after the Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The hospitals most exposed are rural, and the counties they serve voted heavily for Trump.

power 2026-04-12

Two Drug Prices at Once

Trump is simultaneously threatening 100% tariffs on brand-name drugs that do not cut prices and expanding Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices downward. These are opposite levers. One of them is a bluff.

power 2026-04-09

States Are Already Cutting Medicaid. Congress Hasn't Even Voted Yet.

Missouri, Montana, Virginia, and other states are preemptively eliminating Medicaid services — doula care, psychiatric units, dental coverage — in anticipation of federal cuts that have not yet been enacted. The cuts are happening twice: once in advance, and once when the bill passes.