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  • Trump admin doles out billions for rural health

    01/03/2026 8:00:34 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 15 replies
    Politico ^ | Alice Miranda Ollstein & Ruth Reader
    The Trump administration on Monday doled out billions to states from a fund Congress created to “transform” rural health care. The funds, however, will be lavished more generously on small states and states that adopt administration friendly policies. “The purpose of this $50 billion investment in rural health care is not to pay off the bills,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters Monday. “The purpose of this $50 billion investment is to allow us to rightsize the system and to deal with the fundamental hindrances of improvement in rural health care.” Over...