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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as U.S.Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.Kennedy jr. and Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services mehmet Oz look on during a rural health roundtable on January 16, 2026 in washington, DC.
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A nationwide experiment to give health care in rural America a $50 billion makeover is underway.
The Trump governance,in a late December announcement, revealed how much each state will get under an enterprising 5-year initiative known as the Rural Health Transformation Program.
“This is a massive effort to change an unfortunate reality that has occurred to rural health care in America,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters as the awards went out, ”wich is that your zip code has started to predict your life expectancy.”
