Senate Republican leadership is considering establishing a fund for rural hospitals to win over holdouts of the one “big, beautiful bill.”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have expressed concern about how scaling back the Medicaid provider tax could harm rural hospitals in their states.

“There’s a number of different things, but they have to do something,” Hawley told Politico. “They cannot defund rural hospitals.”

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