ICYMI: “Health Care Providers Call Out Collins for Supporting Medicaid Cuts that Will Slash Rural Hospitals, Jobs and Services”

Augusta, Maine – In case you missed it, Mainers and health care providers are continuing to call out Susan Collins for “supporting Medicaid cuts” when she served as a “key” “pivotal vote” to advance the toxic GOP budget bill. As Mainers face the consequences of Collins’ failures and refusal to stop the legislation, reporting is highlighting the predicted impacts the GOP bill will have on Maine including:

  • Numerous hospital closures in Maine

  • 61,000 Mainers losing health care coverage,

  • More than 20,000 Maine health care workers losing their jobs.

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Maine Beacon: Health care providers call out Collins for supporting Medicaid cuts that will slash rural hospitals, jobs and services
By Channa Steinmetz
August 20, 2025

  • With hundreds of hospitals on the brink of closure, countless others preparing deep service cuts, and millions of health care workers facing the loss of their jobs, a new report from the health care advocacy group Protect Our Care argues that Congressional Republicans have created a national health care crisis.

  • In the report, the group finds that the Trump budget will likely force hundreds of hospitals around the country, including Aroostook Medical Center in Presque Isle and Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, to close. It also states that more than 15,000,000 Americans will likely lose coverage, and an estimated 477,000 health workers will lose their jobs as a result of Medicaid cuts.

  • Advocates say that Sen. Susan Collins’ vote to advance the bill [...] represent a failure to stand up for Mainers.

  • In not using her position as chair of the Appropriations Committee to take a stand against the legislation, Maine Democratic Party Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson said, “she has cost us our health care. She has cost us freedom. She has cost us the representation that we as Mainers and as Americans deserve.”

  • Patty Hymanson, a physician and former Maine State representative, also criticized Collins for allowing the bill and its harmful cuts to move forward.

  • “The provisions of [Trump’s budget] take slashes to our health care system, raising costs and administrative burdens,” Hymanson “… Strains on our health care system already exist and hospitals will likely make difficult decisions. Those who voted for this law to move forward can be held accountable for the harms now.”

  • The legislation includes the largest cuts to health care in American history. Analysts warn the plan would slash more than $400 billion in critical funding for hospitals, kicking 16 million Americans off their health care, forcing hundreds of hospitals to close or scale back services, and devastating rural economies. Communities would lose access to maternity care, emergency rooms, and lifesaving treatments while thousands of health care workers could lose their jobs.

See more: What Mainers Are Saying: Collins Failed to Use “Her Immense Power” to Stop Harmful GOP Bills; What Mainers Are Saying: “Collins is Out for Herself,” “Betray[ed] Her Constituents,” “Helped Facilitate the Terrible Legislation’s Passage”; What Mainers are Watching and Reading: Maine Dems Call Out Collins for Her Role in Advancing GOP Budget Bill; ICYMI: Maine Democrats Call Out Susan Collins for Her Role in Advancing Disastrous GOP Budget Bill in Bangor; What Mainers Are Saying: “Collins Bears Full Responsibility,” “Let the Citizens of Maine… Down Big Time” with Passage of GOP Budget Bill; ICYMI: Susan Collins “May Not be Able to Avoid the Blame” for GOP Budget Bill Despite Apparently “Orchestrated” Vote [Portland Press Herald]; ICYMI: Despite Collins' Final Vote on Reconciliation, "Republicans Pass it Anyway,” After She Made “Key,” “Pivotal Vote” to Advance Bill in First Place;

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