States jostle over $50 billion rural health fund as Trump's Medicaid cuts trigger scramble

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2. My guess is that most of this money will go to private equity firms.

Anytime Republicans talk about new ways of delivering healthcare, you know they mean less actual medical care and higher profits for rich backers.

Studies have shown that nursing homes owned by private equity had mire Covid deaths. Other studies have revealed that private equity ownership of hospitals and medical practices have helped have cost and worse medical outcomes. Rural hospitals have suffered the most.

Republicans do not care about healthcare. They care only about preying on people’s illness to make money.