{"id":31167,"date":"2025-07-06T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31167"},"modified":"2025-07-06T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:24:04","slug":"north-carolina-braces-for-medicaid-cuts-because-of-trumps-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31167","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Braces For Medicaid Cuts Because of Trump\u2019s Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump\u2019s domestic policy law jeopardizes plans to reopen one rural county\u2019s hospital \u2014 and health coverage for hundreds of thousands of state residents.<\/p>\n

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The only hospital in Martin County, N.C., closed in 2023, but the electricity is still on inside. Air conditioning continues to keep its empty patient rooms cool. And the county still pays the bills for the building\u2019s medical gas system.<\/p>\n

That is because the people of Martin County, in rural eastern North Carolina, have been determined to keep the beige brick building from deteriorating \u2014 and to somehow reopen their hospital, which had been struggling financially for years.<\/p>\n

When North Carolina expanded Medicaid later in 2023, after the hospital shuttered, offering government health insurance to the state\u2019s low-income adults, Martin County saw an opportunity. Plans materialized to partly reopen the hospital, largely because federal dollars were pouring into the state to cover patients\u2019 care under Medicaid.<\/p>\n

But those plans are now in jeopardy, as is Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of North Carolina residents, after Congress passed President Trump\u2019s sweeping domestic policy bill. To help pay for tax cuts, the bill slashes federal spending on Medicaid, leaving states that expanded the program under Obamacare in a particularly difficult spot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If Medicaid expansion is eliminated in North Carolina, Martin General Hospital almost surely will not reopen \u2014 \u201ca catastrophic and deadly consequence,\u201d said Paul Roberson, a real estate agent and community leader in Williamston, where a sign in front of the hospital reads, \u201cCLOSED. If you need immediate assistance, dial 911.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot having the hospital here is costing lives,\u201d Mr. Roberson said, noting that the nearest hospital was about a 30-minute drive away. \u201cThis is the most important thing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s domestic policy law jeopardizes plans to reopen one rural county\u2019s hospital \u2014 and health coverage for hundreds of thousands of state residents.The only hospital in Martin County, N.C., closed in 2023, but the electricity is still on inside. Air conditioning continues to keep its empty patient rooms cool. And the county still pays the bills for the building\u2019s medical gas system.That is because the people of Martin County, in rural eastern North Carolina, have been determined to keep the beige brick building from deteriorating \u2014 and to somehow reopen their hospital, which had been struggling financially for years.When North Carolina expanded Medicaid later in 2023, after the hospital shuttered, offering government health insurance to the state\u2019s low-income adults, Martin County saw an opportunity. Plans materialized to partly reopen the hospital, largely because federal dollars were pouring into the state to cover patients\u2019 care under Medicaid.But those plans are now in jeopardy, as is Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of North Carolina residents, after Congress passed President Trump\u2019s sweeping domestic policy bill. To help pay for tax cuts, the bill slashes federal spending on Medicaid, leaving states that expanded the program under Obamacare in a particularly difficult spot.If Medicaid expansion is eliminated in North Carolina, Martin General Hospital almost surely will not reopen \u2014 \u201ca catastrophic and deadly consequence,\u201d said Paul Roberson, a real estate agent and community leader in Williamston, where a sign in front of the hospital reads, \u201cCLOSED. If you need immediate assistance, dial 911.\u201d\u201cNot having the hospital here is costing lives,\u201d Mr. Roberson said, noting that the nearest hospital was about a 30-minute drive away. \u201cThis is the most important thing for us.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31169,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31170,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31167\/revisions\/31170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}