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A new Republican-backed law will significantly cut federal Medicaid spending, potentially leaving millions uninsured.

Rural hospitals, which often operate on thin margins and rely heavily on Medicaid, are at risk of closing or cutting services.

The law includes a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals, but leaders say it's not enough to offset the Medicaid cuts.

Eugene McGrath remembers the moment he decided to seek treatment after a decade-long struggle with meth addiction.

"I dropped my bag of drugs, and my now 5-year-old daughter grabbed it," he said. "That was my breaking point, what people would call a rock bottom."At the time, he said, he had just come off probation, no longer had a court officer checking in on him, and had started using meth again.“That was un

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