Becker's Healthcare July 22, 2025
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Warner, D-Va., are urging the Trump administration to outline its plans for protecting rural hospitals from cyberattacks amid what they called the “largest healthcare cuts in American history.”
In a letter sent July 21 to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, the lawmakers raised concerns that the Republican-backed budget proposal — often referred to by Democrats as “Trumpcare” — would undermine cybersecurity efforts at small and rural hospitals by slashing federal healthcare funding.
“‘Trumpcare’ will harm the cybersecurity resiliency of rural and small hospitals just as this administration has chosen to gut cybersecurity operations at HHS,” Sens. Wyden and Warner wrote in the letter.
The senators argued that smaller...
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