The recently passed GOP tax and spending law cuts about a trillion dollars from Medicaid over the next decade. Those cuts, according to the Congressional Budget Office and other independent analyses, will add upwards of 11 million people to the ranks of the uninsured.

Medicaid helps pay for 41% of births in the U.S., according to Kaiser Family Foundation. In rural communities, it covers nearly half. President Trump's new spending bill cuts Medicaid's federal funding and largely leaves it up to the states to decide if and how to supplement care.

“Mean and cruel” — that’s how U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto described Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget bill after passage in the Senate. She gathered Nevada health care leaders and workers July 2 to talk about how the state would be affected.