HAP Statement on Energy and Commerce Committee Reconciliation Text

Harrisburg, PA (May 13, 2025)—HAP President and CEO Nicole Stallings released the following statement about the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s budget reconciliation legislation:

“Medicaid cuts proposed by the Energy and Commerce Committee’s reconciliation text would jeopardize Pennsylvanians’ access to care. Medicaid is not just a lifeline for 3 million Pennsylvanians who rely on the program for coverage but is also a critical funding source that hospitals depend on to care for everyone in our communities. Reducing health care coverage makes Pennsylvanians less healthy, increases hospitals’ burden of uncompensated care, and raises health care costs for everyone.

“More than half of Pennsylvania's acute care hospitals are operating in the red, largely because payments do not reflect the actual cost of providing care. Pennsylvania hospitals, on average, already absorb a loss of 18 cents on the dollar—26 cents in rural communities—for care they provide to patients covered by Medicaid. Reducing payments even further will force more hospitals to reduce services or, in the worst cases, close.

“HAP urges Congress to oppose cuts that put Pennsylvanians’ care at risk.”