Rural hospitals play a critical role in ensuring that Americans and their families have access to needed health care services. Given that rural communities tend to be older, rural hospitals are particularly important for older Americans in these communities. Rural hospitals are also often a critical driver of economic activity in the areas in which they are located, serving as an important employer and providing good-paying jobs that inject money into local communities.

Congress must address these barriers and support the innovators and entrepreneurs that will create good jobs and investment today and power the economy of the future.

Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a fact sheet today on the important role Medicaid plays in fighting the opioid crisis and how TrumpCare would reverse the progress we have made so far. The fact sheet follows last week’s Joint Economic Committee hearing on the economic impacts of the opioid crisis.

State-by-state graphics showing how many jobs each state would lose under TrumpCare with comparisons to state industries. Graphic data is from Economic Policy Institute’s new report “How many jobs could the AHCA cost your state?”