Senate Republicans say they are looking for ways to safeguard rural hospitals from proposed cuts to a key Medicaid funding method.

GOP senators from across the political spectrum have debated the broad strokes of the tax and spending cut legislation for weeks, but raised fresh concerns after the influential Finance Committee released its portion of the package,

The tax and health portions of the measure, unveiled late Monday, would make it harder for states to shift Medicaid costs onto the U.S. government. The plan contains a provision t