Coupled with the financial burden of the county’s recent $150 million Regional Medical Center purchase, county leaders are desperate to find ways of addressing federal funding gaps.
More than 100 medical worker positions were deleted in the FY25-26 budget, but these cuts are separate and distinct from the federal funding cuts to Medicaid that the county is anticipating under H.R. 1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill, which passed on July 4.
“There’s a lot the state can do—they certainly should not be exacerbating the federal impacts,” Williams said. “The most recent budget adopted by the state layers its own medical cuts on top of federal cuts, and that is very concerning. The state needs to take care of its public hospital systems.”…