The White House has announced that Arizona will receive $167 million in rural health care funding under a new federal program.
Some worry that there are strings attached to the funding.
About $10 billion was doled out to all states in the first installment of funding available under the Rural Health Transformation Program.
A portion of the money available is tied to whether or not states are implementing the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again initiative policies.
The White House could claw back money if it decides that states failed to adhere to those initiatives.
While the federal government claims the program offers a 50% increase in rural health care funding, some say that won’t offset the billions cut from Medicaid under President Donald Trump's spending bill.
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