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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ali Rogers wishes she could serve everyone who needs help in her rural community in northeast Alabama, but she doesn’t have the resources or space to be able to. Rogers runs The Arc of Dekalb County, ...

Alabama school districts are missing $68 million in federal funds, putting programming and some jobs in jeopardy as state officials try to get answers. The money, which was meant for local ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — A slew of organizations are urging Gov. Kay Ivey and state lawmakers to oppose healthcare cuts in the U.S. House’s budget reconciliation bill. In a letter initiated by the ...

Alabama has expanded income eligibility for the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, known as WIC, meaning more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An empty hospital corridor A vacant hallway at Vaughan Regional Medical Center in Selma, Alabama on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024 in Selma ...

Jordyn joined Investopedia in February 2025. She was previously a freelance writer covering lifestyle, entertainment, politics in the Midwest, and more. Getty Images Some Medicaid recipients think ...

Legislators don’t lack options to address a shortfall in the state’s Medicaid program. But what they do lack -- for now -- is leadership in the Alabama House and a certainty about whether the will ...

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 ...

The so-called "One, Big Beautiful Bill" includes the largest cuts to Medicaid in the program's 50-plus years. What to know in Alabama.