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Advocates for rural hospitals are warning that sweeping changes to Medicaid in the massive tax bill approved in July could threaten the existence of the facilities, which are vital both for the health of rural residents and their communities’ economies.

Rural schools and hospitals are trying to staff up even as they face a number of other significant challenges, government officials and policy groups told members of a House Appropriations Committee panel on Wednesday.