By skyforbes 
Kevin Stansbury, CEO of rural Lincoln Community Hospital and Care Center, clarifies that the hospital could not survive Medicaid cuts.
Conservative CEO of rural hospital slams Medicaid cuts
Kevin Stansbury, a self‑described conservative and the chief executive of Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo, Colorado, did not intend to become a spokesman for government health insurance. Yet his recent New York Times guest essay and appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe reveal a hard truth that many Republican lawmakers refuse to face: Medicaid is the financial backbone of rural medicine, and the latest Trump‑aligned proposals to cap or slash the program will accelerate a wave of hospital closures that strikes red America first and hardest.
Stansbury’s hospital serves a frontier county with barely two residents per square mile. It operates ambulance service, home‑health, long‑term‑care beds, and is the only primary‑care clinic in an area the size of Connecticut. None of those services turn a profit; they survive because…