Hospitals Brace as Republicans Fight Over Medicaid

Phil Ennen runs a rural hospital system in northwest Ohio that admits about 2,500 people a year, many of them poor or elderly. He’s got the only emergency cardiac catheterization lab between Toledo and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Ennen estimates he’d be out $1.3 million a year and struggle to stay independent if business groups and Governor John Kasich can’t persuade fellow Republicans to expand Medicaid to cover more poor people under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.