{"id":116328,"date":"2025-08-28T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:40:09","slug":"alabama-getting-500-million-for-rural-healthcare-but-what-that-means-is-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116328\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama getting $500 million for rural healthcare, but what that means is unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XOPHD5GYFRG6JA6Z7Z7UDCJ5AI\">State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris told Alabama lawmakers Wednesday that the state is expected to receive at least $100 million a year for rural health care over five years under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/politics\/2025\/07\/these-are-the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trumps-big-beautiful-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/politics\/2025\/07\/these-are-the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trumps-big-beautiful-bill.html\">\u201cOne Big Beautiful Act\u201d <\/a>but much uncertainty remains about how the money can be used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RBSZPKFUMFGUHBBLZEA6VEHWUI\">Harris, who leads the Alabama Department of Public Health, made the comments at a budget hearing at the Alabama State House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7W2G5YFJXVC65PQNADNRVNCSLY\">He said much remains to be seen about the grants and other changes coming to health programs under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris told Alabama lawmakers Wednesday that the state is expected to receive at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-116328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}