On National Rural Health Day, Ohioans Face Closing Hospitals Under Jon Husted’s Health Care Crisis
November 20, 2025
Columbus, Ohio — On National Rural Health Day, rural communities across Ohio are sounding the alarm about devastating health care cuts championed by Senator Jon Husted. Husted cast the deciding vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history, ripping coverage from 490,000 Ohioans and putting at least eleven rural Ohio hospitals on the brink of closure.
Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde released the following statement:
“Jon Husted’s health care cuts are pushing rural hospitals over the edge and ripping health care away from nearly half a million Ohioans. Rural families deserve better than a politician that will vote to gut their healthcare — all to give massive tax breaks for billionaires and corporations.”
Jon Husted Championed Devastating Cuts to Rural Hospitals:
- Jon Husted championed devastating cuts to health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations — ripping coverage from 490,000 Ohioans and putting at least eleven rural Ohio hospitals on the brink of closure.
- According to reports, at least two hospitals in Ohio are already at risk of closing and many others are “being forced to eliminate parts of the services they provide” in Southeast Ohio, which has the highest rates of Medicaid recipients than any other part of the state.
- Jon Husted called the cuts to health care “purposeful” and said he “loves doing that kind of stuff,” even as families, seniors, and rural communities across Ohio face losing life saving coverage.
- While Husted is now claiming he is open to a bipartisan solution to extend the ACA tax credits, he voted eight times this year against proposals that would protect affordable health care and claimed the ACA tax credits are “not the way to go about it.”
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