Forbes October 2, 2025
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) issued a press release last month stating that St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Northeast Georgia is ending services for delivering mothers and newborn babies due to Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law by President Trump. This is now the second rural hospital in Georgia to reduce or anticipate cutting services, reportedly as a result of the legislation.
Established in 1965, Medicaid is the joint state and federal health insurance program largely for people with low incomes in the United States. Currently, approximately 72 million people are enrolled. It’s hard to overstate the program’s importance. It covers more than 40% of all births in the country, and nearly two-thirds of nursing...
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