Senator Susan Collins spoke at the 11th annual World Medical Innovation Forum hosted by Mass General Brigham in Boston.

Senator Collins discussed numerous issues related to both healthcare and the federal government, including her dissatisfaction with the cuts to Medicaid in President Trump's "big beautiful bill" and a legal requirement that says children with severe lifelong disabilities must re-register every six months to qualify for the Medicaid program. She also says she is still pushing for more funding for rural hospitals.

"Eventually, a 50-billion-dollar rural hospital transformation bill, they changed the name, fund was included in the bill. That will certainly help, but it does not begin to completely offset the cuts in the medicaid program. But it should buy us some time," Col

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