Dr. Mehmet Oz

Dr. Oz says states can use funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program for workforce development, telemedicine, maternity care, and more.

Pennsylvania was awarded $193 million this year.

Oz says he's not concerned about the predicted financial struggles hospitals could face with changes to Medicaid.

The Trump administration plans to cut the federal health care program by more than $900 billion over 10 years.

Changes to Medicaid work requirements begin to take effect in 2027.

For NPR News, I'm Lydia McFarlane in Scranton.

We believe, listen carefully, we are spending $300 billion a year in health care in this country for fraudulent, abusive, or wasteful purposes.

$300 billion.

Let's put that in perspective.

If we could reduce fraud by 5%, which is that $300 billion, we would take the trust fund that's going to take care of all of us as we get older, and we would allow it not to expire in five to six years.

We would double its life expectancy.

That's massively important if you're going to trust the social safety net to be there for you.

You deserve that social safety net.

It's there.

It's created.

We're not going to let fraudsters steal it from you.

The Stellar CS team, I want to call them out.

Kim Brandt, who's videoing me over there.

Dan Brillman, Capri Snap, Steph Carlton have worked tirelessly to put this together.

They've been rooting out criminals all year long.