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President Donald Trump this week alternately vowed to protect Medicaid and endorsed a House plan that may mean billions of dollars in cuts to the program. Trevor Sawallish, CEO of North Memorial Health, says hospitals in both Robbinsdale and Maple Grove will feel the pain if the cuts are carried out, and Medicaid cutbacks may put some programs, even whole hospitals, on the financial brink. A potential lifeline Minnesota hospitals have proposed — state directed payments — may also be newly vulnerable.