Voices: I’ve seen how rural hospitals save Utahns’ lives. Cuts to Medicaid threaten their very existence.

"We do not close roads for being less-frequently travelled," writes medical student Rachel Pernick in an op-ed. "Hospitals, ...
CounterPunchOpinion

Congress’s Cuts to Medicaid Could Devastate Rural Hospitals

When Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, Arizona, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many smaller towns ...
Agri-Pulse

New fund may help rural hospitals weather Medicaid cuts

Advocates for rural hospitals are warning that sweeping changes to Medicaid in the massive tax bill approved in July could threaten the existence of the facilities, which are vital both for the health ...
HousingWire

Medicaid cuts put rural hospitals and seniors at risk

Rural hospitals have continued to grapple with financial struggles following last month’s passage of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and associated cuts to Medicaid programs. The bill has ...
The Highland County Press

States hope to use rural health money to keep doctors, combat chronic disease

In their competition for rural health care dollars from a new federal fund, states are seeking money to bolster emergency services, address chronic diseases, and recruit and train more doctors and ...
WHYY

‘Stretched thin’: Medicaid cuts threaten Delawareans’ access to health care in rural areas

Delaware has a plan to transform health care in the state’s rural areas, but is dealing with billions in federal funding cuts.
Afro

Medicaid cuts in Republicans’ spending bill threaten rural hospitals, disaster preparedness

The 47th president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is set to slash Medicaid, a move experts warn will strip millions of Americans of their health insurance coverage and force rural hospitals—many of which ...
Hawk Central

Indiana bureaucrats want to gut Medicaid. Trump should intervene. | Opinion

Indianapolis knows firsthand what happens when hospital funding dries up. In recent years, the city’s only osteopathic hospital and Kindred Hospital Indianapolis South have both closed their doors.
Becker's Hospital Review

Rural hospitals’ future under the One Big Beautiful Bill

How will the recent federal budget legislation – the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) – slowly and inevitably undermine rural hospitals? Here is how it will happen. The OBBB over time will ...

Nebraska threw a 'lifeline' to rural hospitals on the brink. It's fraying

The mounting challenges facing hospitals led Nebraska lawmakers to try to help — pushing a bill to unlock up to $1 billion in federal Medicaid funding. But that money was tied up in a federal approval ...

A billion-dollar plan to improve health for rural residents in Conn.

The funding would come from the Rural Health Transformation Program, created as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill that ...
Glenwood Springs Post Independent

Colorado seeks at least $500 million in rural health funding from federal Republicans’ megabill

Colorado health officials are seeking at least $500 million in health care funding over five years for rural communities, as ...