STAT+: The messaging war over Medicaid cuts

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Pitting city slickers against country folk

Medicaid cuts in the tax bill Republicans passed last summer are expected to hit rural providers and patients especially hard. Much of those cuts are the result of restrictions on some of the ways that states boosted federal funding for their programs.

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