U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan welcomed Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Alaska Tuesday. Kennedy said that he is "committed to being the best HHS secretary for the tribes that has ever happened since my agency was created."

Kennedy, Murkowski and Sullivan met with the Alaska Native Health Board at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage Monday and followed the meeting with a press conference on health care in Alaska.

Rural health care

Kennedy thanked President Donald Trump for putting the Rural Health Transformation Program in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act. The program appropriates $10 billion per year over the next five years to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. States apply starting in September with

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