Senate Republicans weigh $ 15 billion to facilitate Medicaid revolt on Trump Bill

The Medicaid debate among the Republicans of the Senate continues to rage, but a new proposal focused on the concerns of the survival of rural hospitals could help to close the persistent cracks within the conference.

The Senate Republicans sprint to finish their work on the “Big and Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump, which is filled with key priorities such as carrying out his permanent long -term tax reductions, funding his program of immigration and border security and waste rotation, fraud and abuse in a variety of programs.

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But legislators are still disagreement on the modifications to the Senate of the bill of the bill at the tax rate of the Medicaid supplier and the effects he could have on rural hospitals, threatening to derail the legislation near the finish line.

A proposal for the turn of the Senate financing committee obtained by Fox News Digital would create a separate stabilization fund that would help and improve rural health care.

The Committee’s proposal would allocate $ 3 billion a year to states that apply to the program in the next five years.

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Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, talks to media members after the Senate Republican Policy Lunch at the American Capitol in Washington on June 4, 2025. (Getty Images)

But this amount is too low for some senators and far too much for others.

Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, worked on a similar proposal but would prefer a much higher fund of $ 100 billion. It is unlikely that this number will pass with her colleagues and is still not high enough for her.

“I don’t think that solves the whole problem,” she said. “The Cups of the Senate in Medicaid are much deeper than the cuts of the room and I think it is also problematic.”

Collins would prefer a return to the GOP Chamber of Chamber at the tax rate of providers, rather than the harder repression of the Senate.

Senate changes to the tax rate of service provisions have reached near their home for Collins, whose state rural hospitals are already in danger because the state of Maine has not advanced its budget over time, leaving around $ 400 million in Medicaid funding which would have been devoted to rural hospitals in Limbo.

“Obviously, all money is useful. But no, it’s not adequate,” she said.

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Indeed, changes in the tax rate of the Medicaid supplier, which were struck by the version of the bill of the bill of the bill, have angry the Republicans who warned not to revise the health care program which could prevent rural hospitals and the Americans who work from their advantages.

The Senate financing committee went further than freezing the chamber of the tax rate of providers, or the amount that Medicaid State programs pay to health care providers on behalf of the beneficiaries of Medicaid, for the expansion of the non -affordable care law and include a provision that reduces the rate of expansion states annually until it reaches 3.5%.

However, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Mehmet Oz, and certain Republicans of the Senate argued that the rate of taxation of providers is a scam with fraud that really harms rural hospitals more than it helps.

Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., Was in the same camp and argued that the rate should be completely nixed. He also put pressure for a separate fund, but did not want the cost of the current proposal.

“I don’t know we need $ 15 billion,” he said. “But it must be managed by CMS.”

And others wanted to see more money injected into a stabilization fund.

“I think that $ 5 billion a year would only do them whole,” said Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan.,

Kansas senator Roger Marshall, speaking to journalists during a press conference. (Getty Images)

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He argued that, as the only legislator to lead a rural hospital, there are only 12 million people on Medicaid in rural America and that legislators should “tighten things” when it comes to finance the health care program.

He said that being on Medicaid was “not the same as having health care” and added that “at best, two thirds of doctors accept Medicaid, and even many specialists, when they say they do it, they do not give you an appointment for six months or a year.”

“Medicaid is not the solution,” he said. “It is the most broken federal system here.”