RFK Jr. Touts Big Beautiful Bill’s Massive Funding Boost for Rural Hospitals

[mystery-ak]

RFK Jr. Touts Big Beautiful Bill’s Massive Funding Boost for Rural Hospitals

Nick Gilbertson 26 Aug 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted that the One Big Beautiful Bill dramatically raises funding for rural hospitals, during Tuesday’s White House Cabinet meeting.

Kennedy was the first member of Trump’s Cabinet to provide an update on their work and emphasized the meeting is “about working Americans, bringing jobs back to this country, and particularly rural America.”

https://twitter.com/SecKennedy/status/1960404607248818654

“I want to mention the Big, Beautiful Bill. Right now, we spend 7 percent of Medicaid dollars on rural hospitals. They’re getting the short end of the stick. It’s about $19 billion a year,” he explained.

“Under the Rural Transformation Program, we give them an extra $10 billion a year, so we’re raising an infusion of cash to rural hospitals and rural communities by 50 percent,” Kennedy added.

Kennedy said the funding boost will do wonders for rural communities.

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[mystery-ak]

Well, there goes the Dems talking points re cuts to rural hospitals...

[PeteS in CA]

Well, there goes the Dems talking points re cuts to rural hospitals...

In unsurprising real-world hypocrisy, Dems have attacked some rural hospitals, because they are operated by Catholic non-profits and won't do surgeries such as tubal ligations and genital mutilations (for men who think they are women). The major hospital in Redding, CA was sued (and won) some years ago for refusing to do a tubal ligation.