By Phil Galewitz Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health coverage and hospitals would close if they cut Medicaid funding to help pay for President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill. But Republicans ignored those pleas, made even deeper cuts, and sent the legislation to the White House on July 3, where Trump signed it the next day. The law’s passage marked a rare political loss for some of the health industry’s biggest players. When unified, doctors, hospitals, and insurers have stood among the most powerful lobbying forces
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