Trump’s base in rural America could be disproportionately hurt by Medicaid cuts
“The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion disproportionately benefited rural Americans over their urban counterparts, according to a new report, and President Trump’s proposed cuts to the program could negatively affect millions of them who have come to rely on it for coverage. The ACA, better known as ‘Obamacare,’ led to an 11 percent decrease in the number of uninsured rural Americans in states that chose to participate in Medicaid expansion, a linchpin of the law, according to the new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.”