When H.R. 1 passed last year and slashed $1 trillion from federal health care programs, we warned that the implications would be horrific and far-reaching.

Now, our worst fears are being realized. Our new report, A Preventable Crisis, found that these cuts put more than 600 hospitals at extreme risk of cuts and closures of essential health care services.

The triple threat of cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA subsidies will add between $5.21 and $7.72 billion in aggregate deficit per year to already financially vulnerable hospitals — which could force them to shut down.

This is a devastating figure that will close off care to millions of people across the country by impacting:

131 Critical Access Hospitals, the sole or primary hospital serving rural communities.
469 Short Term Acute Care hospitals, which handle most inpatient admissions, emergency visits, and surgical procedures for working people in urban and suburban areas.
Rural, micropolitan, and metropolitan communities across nearly every single state.

On the ground, this means people will have to travel further for emergency services, wait longer to see a doctor, and lose the ability to get the care that should be guaranteed as a human right.

We cannot allow these cuts to stand. We must fight to reverse these cuts, along with more policy recommendations outlined in our new report. But we also know that the only way to permanently protect these hospitals and truly fix our broken health care system is to pass Medicare for All.

Everybody should be able to get the care they need, when they need it. Medicare for All would ensure people have high-quality health care, and that hospitals like these would no longer be at risk of closure.

As the impacts of H.R. 1 have gone into effect, our movement to pass Medicare for All has grown. When people learn what’s happening to our health care system, they join our fight. We have to keep raising that awareness by ensuring this report reaches far and wide.

Here’s what you can do to sound the alarm today: First, take a moment to read the full A Preventable Crisis report by clicking here. Then, share it with your friends, family, and other people in your network to let them know about the risk our health care system faces.

Read the Report

In times like this, it can be easy to give in to despair. But we know that we can and will undo these cuts and pass Medicare for All by organizing together.

Thank you for being in this fight with us.

In solidarity,

National Nurses United

P.S. -- We’ve launched the Red Alert: Save Our Hospitals tour this year in response to this unprecedented attack. Click here to find out when the bus tour will be near you.