{"id":345300,"date":"2026-03-24T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:25:06","slug":"rfk-jr-and-dr-oz-have-a-plan-to-save-rural-health-care-heres-the-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345300\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz have a plan to save rural health care. Here\u2019s the catch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B1P40D7F7N30V8UPBN1C2388XC\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team want to Make Rural America Healthy again.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MIKTZMI4TZADLF6HYAK4FR3XKQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NMmxKQmLQUE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has suggested<\/a> that AI nurses could save dying rural hospitals. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/14\/nx-s1-5704189\/dr-oz-ai-avatars-replace-rural-health-workers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robots could give ultrasounds<\/a> to women and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/public-affairs-event\/hhs-secretary-kennedy-dr-oz-and-administration-officials-on-behavioral-health\/672593\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">touted how AI avatars<\/a> could help. And President Donald Trump\u2019s administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/priorities\/rural-health-transformation-rht-program\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is infusing<\/a> $50 billion over five years to improve rural health, with some states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/rural-health-transformation-50-state-spotlights.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposing<\/a> to use the money for drones to deliver lab samples or prescriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team want to Make Rural America Healthy again. He has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-345300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}