Medicare for All Bay County

08/08/2026

06/04/2026

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.

05/13/2026

Mark Pieper is a rancher in Hay Springs, Nebraska.

For three and a half years, he drove 30 minutes to Chadron Hospital for dialysis three days a week. Then the unit closed. Now he drives 90 miles each way to Scottsbluff, a 200-mile round trip, just to stay alive.

His quote: "I guess I'll just bloat up and die in a month."

Chadron Hospital lost $1 million a year on the service. Their Critical Access designation doesn't cover outpatient dialysis. Nebraska got $219 million from the new Rural Health Transformation Fund — but only 15% can go to actual patient care. The rest? Infrastructure, administration, technology upgrades.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said there are "plenty of able bodied people" on Medicaid that can work.

And KFF projects more than 14 million people could lose coverage when you combine these Medicaid cuts with the ACA premium tax credit expiration. This is what GOP 'fiscal sanity' looks like.

Watch: https://youtu.be/1PGct3Ef5VQ