The House speaker’s eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it’s a lifeline

By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, KFF Health News
MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural hospital that opened in 1952, officials were banking on its main funding source remaining stable: Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for low-income people and the disabled.
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