Dr. Mehmet Oz

They don't live near five, you know, near a hospital usually.

So we don't have access to care in many ways.

If we just took AI and allowed pharmacists and doctors, GPs to function at a higher level, it itself would be worth

the opportunity.

So I'm not even saying advocate at all to an AI agent that doesn't really understand you, we can't control, maybe some other country gets involved in it.

At its very practical level, we do not have enough practitioners.

There just aren't enough people to take care of rural America.

60 million Americans living in rural America don't have access to mental health services.

Our vets commit suicide at a crazily high rate, more than we lose in war, because they don't have access to mental health services.

Many of them do live in rural America.

And so if we're going to fix those kinds of problems, which are time consuming, you're not going to get Park Avenue psychiatrists

To go practice medicine.

At $800 an hour.

At $800 an hour in the north slope of Alaska in the winter.

It's just not going to happen.

And so this $50 billion investment that we as a country just made, the money was part of the Working Families Tax Cut legislation that the president pushed through.

And Congress got behind it.

$50 billion, the largest investment ever made in rural healthcare through our agency was given up by the end of the calendar year.

All the governors have the money and we charge them to make a difference in their communities.

You know your communities, they almost all came back with some AI element.