During a press briefing following the passage of the Senate GOP's Big Beautiful Bill, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was asked about rural hospital funding.
00:00Yes, I just spoke with Dan Sullivan, and he said the Republicans tried four times to get the F map for Alaska, the special F map for Alaska through the parliamentarian.
00:11It was rejected four times, and he said that they doubled the rural hospital fund.
00:15Yeah, the rural hospital fund is a fig leaf.
00:20It's putting a band-aid on an amputation.
00:24Fifty billion dollars when trillion dollars is cut in health care.
00:28Give me a break. They know it.
00:30They know that that money is not going to cover so many of the people who lose their jobs and so many of the hospitals closed.
00:38It's not enough, but the right-wing MAGA people didn't want.
00:43They wanted to slash Medicare.
00:45They wanted to slash Medicaid, and they also were unwilling to do what the more mainstream people want,
00:56so they came up with this fig leaf.
00:58It's not going to work.
00:59The American Hospital Association, who runs the hospitals, came out against it because they thought it was a fake.
