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Through the President’s landmark Working Families Tax Cuts legislation, unprecedented investments and resources are being directed to states to strengthen
Marylanders face increased health insurance costs and are cancelling their coverage, as a result. State officials and advocates hope ‘Easy Enrollment’ program can help.
Iowa gets $209 million to improve rural health care by expanding access, recruiting more professionals and tackling cancer prevention.
Eighteen Rhode Island towns, including some of the state's wealthiest, are designated as rural and eligible for the funds. Rhode Island is getting $156 million to improve rural health care from a federal program created by President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
State officials plan to use funds for mobile health units, telehealth expansion, and modernizing facilities in 160 rural municipalities.
Washington’s rural areas will get a boost in health care funding. The state received $181 million in federal funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program for 2026, according to a news release from Washington Governor Bob Ferguson Wednesday.
Michigan is set to receive $173 million in federal funding for rural health programs. The funding, which is for fiscal year 2025-26 only, is part of the newly-established Rural Health Transformation Program.
President Donald Trump’s administration announced this week Louisiana will receive $208 million in 2026 from the massive $50 billion federal rural health fund that will be distributed over the next fi