FOR THE RECORD. U.S. Rep. Rick Allen dismissed concerns that Georgia’s rural hospitals would be hurt by cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law, saying the impact would be limited only to states that chose to expand their Medicaid programs under the federal Affordable Care Act.

“Not in Georgia,” the Augusta Republican said in response to a question from Savannah TV station WTOC about the bill’s impact. “No, Georgia didn’t expand Medicaid. He’s dead wrong there. It’s only in expansion states.”

But that’s not true, according to multiple analyses of the bill. Spending cuts will impact Georgia differently than most other states, but they will be significant, the AJC’s Ariel Hart reports.

Georgia won’t lose much money from Medicaid work requirements. But Georgia hospitals will see less money than they would have from Medicaid over time. A Medicaid funding stream for many Georgia hospitals called “state directed payments” is scheduled to tighten.

Plus, Georgia has a hefty population of people on subsidized insurance plans sold on the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace. More than 100,000 of them are expected to go uninsured as a result of the law. In total, the health research group KFF estimates about 150,000 Georgians could lose coverage, mostly low-income workers.