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Save Our Rural Hospitals
With health care cuts in a law passed on July 4, 2025, hundreds of rural hospitals are threatened with closure. We can’t let that happen!!
Americans in rural communities die younger than those in urban areas. Rural residents lose three years of life compared to Americans in urban communities.
It’s more dangerous to give birth in a rural community. In rural areas, about 30 women die in pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births compared to about 18 in urban areas. In rural communities, greater numbers of people have no health care insurance.
Health insurance premiums cost about 10% more in rural communities than in urban ones.
Between 2005 and 2020, 166 rural hospitals have closed, costing lives and life-threatening delays in getting health care.
When rural hospitals close, the entire community suffers loss of jobs and economic decline.
The United States spends twice as much per person on health care as other wealthy nations yet continues to produce failing outcomes. A quarter of the nation goes without care because of cost, while 100 million suffer from medical debt. The U. S. has higher death rates from conditions that are treatable than any comparable nation. The outcomes are even worse for those who live in rural communities. The crisis demands a response equal to the catastrophic threats to communities, lives and health.
NSP is fighting for a change! Enactment of an Improved Medicare for All, a national single payer health plan, free from profit, would assure that all patients, regardless of where they live, can get the care they need without premiums or copays or deductibles standing in the way.
An Improved Medicare for All, free from profit, would provide reliable, equitable funding for hospitals and physicians in rural areas. The funding would be based on community health needs rather than on insurance company interests.
Everyone has a right to the excellent health care that our wealthy nation has the ability to provide, and that must include the residents of small towns and farms.
Use the resources below to do your part to save rural hospitals!
Save Our Rural Hospitals
With health care cuts in a law passed on July 4, 2025, hundreds of rural hospitals are threatened with closure. We can’t let that happen!!
Americans in rural communities die younger than those in urban areas. Rural residents lose three years of lifecompared to Americans in urban communities.
It’s more dangerous to give birth in a rural community. In rural areas, about 30 women die in pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births compared to about 18 in urban areas. In rural communities, greater numbers of people have no health care insurance.
Health insurance premiums cost about 10% more in rural communities than in urban ones.
Between 2005 and 2020, 166 rural hospitals have closed, costing lives and life-threatening delays in getting health care.
When rural hospitals close, the entire community suffers loss of jobs and economic decline.
The United States spends twice as much per person on health care as other wealthy nations yet continues to produce failing outcomes. A quarter of the nation goes without care because of cost, while 100 million suffer from medical debt. The U. S. has higher death rates from conditions that are treatable than any comparable nation. The outcomes are even worse for those who live in rural communities. The crisis demands a response equal to the catastrophic threats to communities, lives and health.
Enactment of an Improved Medicare for All, a national single payer health plan, free from profit, would assure that all patients, regardless of where they live, can get the care they need without premiums or copays or deductibles standing in the way.
An Improved Medicare for All, free from profit, would provide reliable, equitable funding for hospitals and physicians in rural areas. The funding would be based on community health needs rather than on insurance company interests.
Everyone has a right to the excellent health care that our wealthy nation has the ability to provide, and that must include the residents of small towns and farms.
Call your Congressperson at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to save our rural hospitals by supporting and cosponsoring Improved Medicare for All, a national single Payer plan, free from profit. Further info: Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care, kyhealthcare.org, (502) 636-1551, nursenpo@aol.com.
Sample Save Rural Hospitals Resolution
Americans in rural communities die younger than those in urban areas. Rural residents lose three years of life compared to Americans in urban communities.
It’s more dangerous to give birth in a rural community. In rural areas, about 30 women die in pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births compared to about 18 in urban areas.
In rural communities, greater numbers of people have no health care insurance.
Health insurance premiums cost about 10% more in rural communities than in urban ones.
Between 2005 and 2020, 166 rural hospitals have closed, costing lives and life-threatening delays in getting health care.
When rural hospitals close, the entire community suffers loss of jobs and economic decline.
The United States spends twice as much per person on health care as other wealthy nations yet continues to produce failing outcomes. A quarter of the nation goes without care because of cost, while 100 million suffer from medical debt. The U. S. has higher death rates from conditions that are treatable than any comparable nation. The outcomes are even worse for those who live in rural communities where the threat of hospital closures is heightened by cuts to Medicaid and health care in the budget reconciliation act of 2025. The crisis demands a response equal to the catastrophic threats to communities, lives and health.
Enactment of an Improved Medicare for All, a national single payer health plan free from profit, would assure that all patients, regardless of where they live, can get the care they need without premiums or copays or deductibles standing in the way.
An Improved Medicare for All, free from profit, would provide reliable, equitable funding for hospitals and physicians in rural areas. The funding would be based on community health needs rather than on insurance company interests.
Because everyone has a right to the excellent health care that our wealthy nation has the ability to provide, and because that must include the residents of rural areas:
Therefore, be it resolved that:
_______________________ goes on record in favor of saving and sustaining our rural hospitals by calling on Congress to pass an Improved Medicare for All, free from profit.
Be it further resolved that this resolution be sent to the U. S. senators and U. S. representatives in our state.
Please send resolutions to nationalsinglepayer@gmail.com or PO Box 17595, Louisville, KY 40217 – More info: Call (502) 636-1551 or go to: National Single Payer | single payer healthcare nationalsinglepayer@gmail.com
Sample LTE
Save Our Rural Hospitals
With health care cuts in a law passed in July 2025, [# of hospitals in your state] hospitals are threatened with closure. We can’t let that happen! Americans in rural communities die younger than those in urban areas, losing three years of life.
It’s more dangerous to give birth in a rural community. In rural areas, about 30 women die in pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births compared to about 18 in urban areas.
In rural communities, greater numbers of people have no health insurance. Health insurance premiums cost about 10% more in rural communities.
When rural hospitals close, the entire community suffers loss of jobs and economic decline.
The United States spends twice as much per person on health care as other wealthy nations yet continues to produce failing outcomes. The outcomes are even worse for those on farms and in small towns.
The crisis demands a response equal to the catastrophic threat. Enactment of an Improved Medicare for All, a national single payer plan, free from profit, would save our hospitals by providing operating costs and would assure that all patients, regardless of where they live, can get the care they need without premiums or copays or deductibles standing in the way.
Everyone has a right to the excellent health care that our wealthy nation has the ability to provide, and that must include the residents of rural areas.
Sample LTE, download and plug in your own state stats using the Markey letter above:
It Will Take National Single Payer to Save Rural Hospitals
August 13, 2025
by Kay Tillow
After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close. Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the Center, announced that the cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation act of 2025 were the immediate cause. Those federal budget cuts have “made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services, many of which have faced significant financial challenges for years,” said Bruntz.
The closing of the Curtis Medical Center is just the beginning of the projected damage. About 15 million are expected to lose health care coverage from the Medicaid cuts and other provisions in the budget reconciliation bill passed on July 4.
In addition, the Shep’s Center, a North Carolina rural research institution, predicts that 338 rural hospitals will close leaving vast holes in rural health care.
But before the new cuts kick in (conveniently, most take effect after the midterm election in 2026), rural health care is already in terrible shape. Rural Americans live sicker and die younger than the rest of the country. On average their lives are cut short by 3 years.
Now this massive hospital closure in our future threatens to make a failed system worse. Studies show that when a rural hospital shuts down, the mortality rate rises by 5.9%!
Full story: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/13/it-will-take-national-single-payer-to-save-rural-hospitals/
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Sample resolution for towns, counties, unions, or organizations:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G4GafRqqKwoJjf6qAXaIFwfgCVLd9nnxX6nC34Ywt9c/edit?tab=t.0
Further information: Kay Tillow, 502 636 1551, Louisville, Kentucky, nursenpo@aol.com
SOS
Special Orders for Single Payer
What is SOS? SOS is “Special Orders for Single Payer,” a campaign to grow the demand to put single payer on the nation’s agenda. It’s how we hold our elected officials accountable.
How do we grow the demand to put single payer on the nation’s agenda? Mobilize your Congressperson to make this a publicly visible fight!
Mobilize Your Member Of Congress Today!
Take a look at the NSP Congressional Checklist to put a national, single payer health care system free from profit on the nation’s agenda.
Cover Kentucky
Anti-War and Genocide
National Single Payer condemns the unilateral, immoral, and criminal military attacks carried out by the United States government against three nuclear facilities on the sovereign nation of Iran. This unprovoked attack on Iran is a flagrant violation of international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the U.S. Constitution and undermines the fundamental pillars of peaceful coexistence among nations.
Anti-Privitization
Cuba
Cuba’s healthcare system is under siege! Just a decade ago Cuba had a healthcare system that was comparable to Canada’s, with the lowest infant mortality rates in the hemisphere and life spans equal or better than many nations. Cubans now have a difficulty accessing medicine and equipment to maintain their services due to US blockades and placement of Cuba on the “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list.
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