Kind leads efforts to protect critical access hospitals

Nearly 70 U.S. House members are urging the debt reduction committee to protect critical access hospitals as they decide how to come up with $1.5 trillion in savings. “A lot of health care providers have given at the bank already when it came to the health care reform bill,” Representative Ron Kind, D-WI, told Wisconsin Health News. “To continue to go back to them for deeper cuts, especially for rural health providers and critical access hospitals, I think it’s going to put a lot of them in jeopardy.” (WHN, 11/9)