This rural county hoped to reopen its hospital. Voting for Trump killed it

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Martin County, nestled in northeast North Carolina, had 24,500 residents in 2010. By 2020, that number had dropped to 22,000. Like much of rural America, its population is steadily declining.

Politically, it’s followed a familiar trajectory. President Barack Obama carried the county twice by 5 points. In 2016, President Donald Trump edged out Hillary Clinton, 49.2% to 48.8%. And by 2020, Trump’s margin grew to 52% to President Joe Biden’s 47%. Last year, he won it by 55% to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 45%.

Now the county faces a very different kind of loss: its only hospital shut down in August 2023 due to financial strain, making the nearest emergency room 22 miles away—a 30-minute drive that, for some, is fatal. It’s even farther for more advanced medical services.

There were plans to reopen the hospital, but then Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid—framed as a crackdown on “fraud and waste”—shattered that possibility.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/8/2332218/-This-rural-county-hoped-to-reopen-its-hospital-Voting-for-Trump-killed-it

FAFO

[republianmushroom]

1. We are in an era of educating America.

Live and learn, dudes, many are just beginning to learn.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Then again

Most people live and learn. Others just live.

[republianmushroom]

3. Those that reject learning , they learn but reject knowledge.

[Cha]

4. Poor Brainwashed suckers . . Didn't realize

Traitor Hates actually helping people.

Finding out are ya?

[Abolishinist]

7. "Few people have the imagination for reality."

From the article...

Cathy Price, 72, a lifelong Williamston resident and former nurse at the shuttered Martin General, told the Times that while she still backs Trump’s efforts to trim Medicaid, “we’re in a life-and-death crisis. People’s lives are on the line because of the hospital not being here.”

There it is: She voted to hurt other people, not herself. And even now, she clings to the fantasy that all of that “fraud and waste” must be happening somewhere else.

But the harsh reality is that there’s nothing remotely efficient about a hospital serving just 22,000 people. Rural hospitals aren’t profitable. They can only exist because of subsidies from urban areas—in effect, from liberals.

And for years, that was the deal: Blue America paid the bills so red America could have hospitals, schools, broadband, and clean water. In return, rural voters have voted to burn the country down.

Okay, then.

[Cha]

8. That's exactly what happened and

what's happening now.

TY for stating the Harsh Reality so vividly. Cathy Price could use a Good Dose of That. I suspect she and like minded have been brainwashed since birth and the reality of what Traitor is(the Anti-Christ) won't ever sink in.

"Trim Medicaid.. " They took a "Chainsaw to it.. " Does Losing Rural hospitals look like "Trimming" to Price.. "

Who said there was "Fraud and Waste..".. The Liarr Fraud said That!

"Still supports.. " the Racist Rapist, Treasonous Felon.. " So "special"... You, Cathy Price, put them in a "Life and Death Crisis".. Traitor Voters.

[Scrivener7]

5. Idiots.

[Johonny]

6. Have the day you voted for

Sad that 55 percent can kill the 45 percent in that area, but they have.

[synni]

9. Our nearest hospitals are 30+ miles away

In rural America, that's a short distance.

Many rural communities are at least 100 miles away from a hospital, and it's only going to get worse.

Sadly, you get what you vote for....

[standingtall]

10. Sense it shut down in 2023

I wonder how many of those idiots blamed the Biden/Harris administration for it. I'm guessing a lot of them.