The Medicaid cuts called for in the Senate’s proposed reconciliation legislation would “…reduce the number of Americans with health care coverage by the millions and bottom-out the resources that safety-net hospitals need to keep the doors open to serve their communities…” the Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals wrote in a letter to Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD), Senate Finance Committee chair Mike Crapo (R-ID), Senate Appropriations Committee chair Susan Collins (R-ME), and Senator Rick Scott (R-FL).

Noting that all community safety-net hospitals would find their financial health jeopardized by the Senate’s reconciliation bill proposal, ASH also cautioned against creating any new special pool of funds to help only some such hospitals, warning that “…a supplemental provider relief fund will further complicate the financing patchwork these hospitals are forced to create to stay afloat and will be insufficient to the task of filling the budget holes created by the Senate’s Medicaid legislation.”

Go here to see the complete ASH letter the Senate leaders.