Rural Health News

Tues, June 16, 2026:

• Backed by Threat of Clawbacks, Feds Wield Tight Grip on $50B Rural Health Fund - KFF

Tues, Dec 30, 2025:

• Texas gets largest share of reconciliation law’s rural health fund. Others at the top of the funding list are Alaska, California, Montana and Oklahoma - Roll Call

Thurs, Dec 24, 2025:

• States are expecting clarity within days for a key feature of Republicans’ signature budget reconciliation law — a $50 billion rural health care fund that has an end-of-year deadline for the administration to announce its plans. – Roll Call

Fri, Dec 12, 2025:

• Rural Health Providers Could Be Collateral Damage From $100K Trump Visa Fee – KFF

Sun, Nov 30, 2025:

• How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill – CNN

Thurs, Oct 16, 2025:

• States jostle over $50 billion rural health fund as Trump’s Medicaid cuts trigger scramble – CBS

Wed, Oct 15, 2025:

• RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as Historic Infusion of Cash – KFF

Fri, Oct 10, 2025:

• Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. – KFF

Sat, Oct 4, 2025:

• A Freeze on Medicaid Payments Is Forcing Cuts to Rural Health Care. The Trump administration has cut off funding for certain providers around the country whose offerings include abortion. Patients in Maine are among those who will feel the fallout. – NYT

Thurs, Oct 2, 2025:

• Trump’s new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals. Rural areas that overwhelmingly voted for the president employ a high concentration of doctors on H-1B visas. – Politico

Mon, Sept 22, 2025:

• Rural health clinics are closing after Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ – CNN

Fri, July 18, 2025:

• It will be hard not to accomplish more than a little good with 50 billion new dollars for rural health, however much politics is mixed in. Yet, with most of the money distributed before the bulk of the Medicaid cuts hit and the uninsured population swells, it doesn’t seem destined to cushion much of the blow from the Medicaid cuts, which was its intended purpose. – KFF

Wed, July 16, 2025:

• KFF Examines $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Included in New Reconciliation Law – KFF

Mon, July 7, 2025:

• DCCC targets 35 House Republicans over budget law’s impact on rural hospitals. House Democrats’ campaign arm launches new digital ads in intensifying fight for majority – Roll Call