Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump and more hospitals closing early.

So, in a recent video, I talked about a medical facility in Nebraska closing,

where the CEO flat out said that the Medicaid cuts were the straw that broke the camel's back.

Community Hospital CEO Troy Brunce said, quote,

Unfortunately, the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid,

has made it impossible for us to continue operating

all of our services,

many of which have faced significant financial challenges

for years.

That prompted a bunch of questions,

asking why they're closing before the cuts even go into effect. Hospitals are really good at math.

Here's the math. There are currently roughly 71.4 million people on Medicaid. 12.8 million people

are expected to be bounced off. So we're looking at almost an 18% reduction. I can't get the

exact numbers for the medical facility that's closing. But in Frontier County, Nebraska,

where this facility is, or was, about 18% of the population is on Medicaid, according to the 2023 report from Georgetown.

Now, realistically, the Medicaid customers probably make up more than 18% of their revenue,

because Medicaid always pays, whereas people without insurance don't always pay. But let's just

take the 18%. Now there's people being bounced off, which is also 18%. That would leave the facility

losing about 3.5% of their revenue. And again, in real life, these numbers will be

much higher. But just going off the numbers we can show, it's 3.24%. That doesn't sound so bad, right?

However, according to Chartes, 46% of rural hospitals were in the red, and 432 were

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