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SCOTUS upheld Tennessee’s trans healthcare ban, setting a key legal precedent likely to affect Florida’s ongoing transgender healthcare law challenges.

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“Rural hospitals rely more on Medicaid to fill in revenue gaps that they may have, so those cuts to Medicaid would hurt their revenue in terms of money that's already coming in,” Harker said. Over the ...