In a small Alabama town, a dentist weighs whether to stop treating kids on Medicaid

Published Date: 29 Oct 2025

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 Medicaid patients from his small-town pediatric ...

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