FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Contact: Linda Benesch, lbenesc
Senate Republicans Just Voted for a Nursing Home Apocalypse
(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, on the Senate voting to pass the Republican reconciliation bill:
“Senate Republicans just voted to close nursing homes and hospitals around the country. These cuts will hit rural areas hardest, but nowhere is safe.
Seventeen million Americans will lose health care because of this bill, but they aren’t the only ones it will hurt. Unless you are a billionaire who can take a helicopter to visit your private doctor, this bill will make your health care worse.
Even if your local hospital doesn’t close, it will have more patients and fewer staff due to the loss of Medicaid funding. Half of nursing homes will lose staff, and a quarter will close. All to give trillions in tax handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Republicans in the House of Representatives can still stop this bill. If they don’t, they will own the resulting health care disaster.”
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