Medicaid programs go by so many different names across the country that advocates and experts warn people may not know they’re losing their coverage until it’s too late.
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Trump insists the cuts come from eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Democrats have said they break Trump’s promise not to touch Medicaid — and over the weekend, Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina agreed. “What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding’s not there anymore?”
We asked Sarah Jane Tribble, the chief rural correspondent for KFF Health News, what the cuts will mean for rural residents of states like North Carolina — and the hospitals that serve them.
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