GOP tax bill would severely cut hospitals’ Medicaid payments: report

WASHINGTON — Hospitals would bear the brunt of federal health care funding cuts in the Republicans’ tax bill, and they’d be hurt hard in states with both predominantly Democratic- and Republican-led governments, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

Republicans are using federal Medicaid funding cuts to pay for part of the cost of cutting taxes in budget reconciliation, a process…