The White House has announced that Arizona will receive $167 million in rural health care funding under a new federal program.
Some worry that there are strings attached to the funding.
About $10 billion was doled out to all states in the first installment of funding available under the Rural Health Transformation Program.
A portion of the money available is tied to whether or not states are implementing the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again initiative policies.
The White House could claw back money if it decides that states failed to adhere to those initiatives.
While the federal government claims the program offers a 50% increase in rural health care funding, some say that won’t offset the billions cut from Medicaid under President Donald Trump's spending bill.
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It's a lesson every doctor learns eventually: Don’t always assume that what you see tells the whole story. Medical commentator Dr. Joseph Sirven explains. -
In the future, Phoenix will not only see more intense high temperatures, but longer heat seasons, climate projections show. -
Health insurance companies in the Affordable Care Act marketplace are seeking an average premium increase of 25% in Arizona for 2027. -
As summer temperatures have soared, so too have cases of dehydration and heatstroke in the Mexican state south of Arizona. -
Dust getting in the air can be a big problem in the desert — as we’ve seen this week —when heavy winds can pick it up and create a moving wall of dust.
