Cuts in hospital subsidies threaten safety net care

The uninsured pour into the Memorial Health hospital in Savannah, Ga. Many of them were expected to gain health coverage under the Affordable Care Act through a major expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor. But after the Supreme Court in 2012 gave states the right to opt out, Georgia, like about half the states, almost all of them Republican-led, refused to broaden the program.