Senate Republicans Float Rural Hospital Fund to Ease Impasse Over Tax Bill

Senate Republicans are crafting provisions to provide funding for struggling rural hospitals in order to resolve an impasse on Medicaid changes that is one issue holding up passage of President Donald Trump’s tax-cut bill.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Wednesday he is working with members of his party on a solution that would ensure financially vulnerable rural hospitals aren’t threatened by the legislation’s cuts to the Medicaid health program for low-income and disabled Americans.