The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest cut is to Medicaid, pulling roughly $1 trillion from the joint federal and state program over the next decade, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign saying Emergency Room on first floor A hallway at Vaughan Regional Medical Center in Selma, Alabama on Tuesday, Sep. 3, ...
Alabama could lose over $800 million in federal Medicaid funding if U.S. House Republicans go through with a plan to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the health insurance program, according to ...
Medicaid is the main health insurance program for people in Alabama who have low incomes, but it is often hard to get. Alabama hasn't expanded its Medicaid program, which means getting Medicaid can be ...
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An Alabama lawmaker who leads a state budget committee said President Trump’s tax cut and spending bill means Alabama will have to tighten programs that hundreds of thousands of families depend on for ...
On May 22, House Republicans passed their budget reconciliation omnibus — the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — which would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, among other ...
You might have a decent idea of which state provides your health insurance coverage if you signed up for MaineCare or Medi-Cal. But what if you enrolled in a plan under Healthy Connections? That's ...
Sometimes, in a quiet moment between appointments, Dr. Carson Cruise runs the financial numbers through his head. They make a cold but compelling case: If he dropped all of the Medicaid patients from ...
FLORENCE, Ala. -- Sometimes, in a quiet moment between appointments, Dr. Carson Cruise runs the financial numbers through his head. They make a cold but compelling case: If he dropped all of the ...