Sen. Pete Ricketts: Big Beautiful Bill is a huge win for Nebraska's rural hospitals

[Omaha Steve]

FULL story: http://archive.today/G7blg

Rural communities are the heart and soul of Nebraska. Their health care needs are unique and require tailored solutions. The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) puts rural patients front and center. It brings care, stability, and reform where it’s needed most. We are providing for rural hospitals so they can continue providing for the Good Life.

Rural hospitals are lifelines for families across Nebraska. They face challenges that urban hospitals don’t. However, our rural hospitals have found ways to adjust and serve their communities.

To support this mission, the One Big Beautiful Bill establishes a $50 billion Rural Healthcare Fund to be distributed over the next five years. Half of the fund is equally split across all 50 states. That’s $100 million guaranteed annually for Nebraska.

The state will be responsible for distributing these funds to rural hospitals. The remaining funds will be distributed by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Rural hospitals will apply to CMS for the grants, which will distribute them based on admission rates, Medicaid share, or will support telehealth, new technology, and data management upgrades.

Original pay link: https://omaha.com/opinion/column/article_2ff71e5d-1c5e-4ff9-b445-b94a4be480be.html

[Ocelot II]

1. Trump must have sent Ricketts a tanker-load of Kool-Aid to drink

in order for him to come up with that steaming heap o' manure.

[Blue Full Moon]

2. The bill actually is going to close rual hospitals

[Grins]

3. Pure CYA propaganda,

The fund was created by Republicans to cover their butts because THEY KNEW their shitty bill would hammer the unwashed who vote for them

“Half of the fund is equally split across all 50 states”

You see the problem here, Petey?

If equal, Nebraska gets $50 per citizen, while California, a state that is TWENTY times larger than Nebraska, would get $2.50 per citizen.

If it was equal to all citizens regardless of state, Nebraska would get $588,000 of that yearly $100M, and California would get $11,600,000.

But REPUBLICANS knew that, and that is why it is per state!

By the way, Petey….what happens when the 10 years is up on your CYA legislation?

* Delaware really benefits, getting $95 per citizen, almost twice that of Nebraska, and 38 times that of California.

** I’d love to see the comments from the readers in Nebraska, but it’s behind a paywall. Have you seen any?

[applegrove]

4. They think 100 million will replace Medicaid lost.

It would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

[Tribetime]

5. Husted is doing the same type of ads on youtube for Ohio

Every time I hear him say he stood it up in support of medicare and medicaid I about puke.

[Mysterian]

6. Good thing republicans raised the debt limit by $5 TRILLION

Now they can borrow more more from China to pay off the farmers with a big handout next.

Insulating their interest groups from the effects of tariffs while the rest of us suffer higher prices.