Researchers named McLaren Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant and UM Health-Sparrow Carson — both in his district — among the rural hospitals most at risk. Three weeks later John Moolenaar voted for the budget bill that cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid. The rural health bill he keeps introducing is a payment-rule fix that has never reached a floor vote in twenty years.
Doctors in the room shouted that it was false. Bilirakis backed up the claim by pointing at a real board — one that was never appointed, never met, was legally barred from rationing care, and was abolished a year later. 'The board exists, OK?' he told CNN.
Obernolte voted for H.R. 1 and posted a statement telling constituents the Medicaid changes wouldn't push anyone off. California's own health department projects 1.1 million Medi-Cal enrollees will lose coverage by 2029-30 under the new work requirement. Forty-eight percent of his district is on the program.
Kustoff has filed rural health bills in three Congresses. Not one has become law. The one health bill he did vote through is taking $7 billion out of TennCare — and Tennessee's share of rural hospitals vulnerable to closure just jumped from 44% to 61%, the worst in the country.
Simple Health sold sham health insurance to more than 400,000 people and took in more than $190 million. Its CEO is serving 25 years in federal prison. Florida's Chief Financial Officer took money from it and a related company three times — and kept taking it after a state attorney general issued a national fraud alert.
LaHood chairs Ways and Means' Work and Welfare Subcommittee. His JOBS for Success Act imposes a signed 'personal responsibility agreement,' an income ceiling, a squeeze on administrative costs and a ban on spending TANF directly on child care — while extending the block grant at the same $16.5 billion Congress set in 1996.
On February 26, 2025, Kim posted a promise on her own website. About 1,000 people rallied at her Anaheim office in April to hold her to it. She voted for the cuts anyway. The Joint Economic Committee estimates 27,115 people in her district lose coverage.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was booked to headline a May 2 fundraiser for Carlos De La Cruz in San Antonio. De La Cruz called it an honor — in the state where two unvaccinated children had just died of measles.
Bean filed the 80-hours-a-month Medicaid work requirement in December 2024 and again in February 2025 — months before it became law. His version was broader than the one that passed, and 92% of the people it targets are already working, caregiving, sick, or in school.