Can a slush fund transform rural health care?
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The GOP tax law made huge cuts to Medicaid, but some lawmakers were able to set aside $50 billion for rural health. People who live in the nation’s rural areas have more chronic disease, die younger, and make less money. But some rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places. Also on the show: Crypto week draws to a close, and TSMC, the company that makes NVIDIA chips, posts record profits.
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| 0:37.1 | Crypto Week draws to a close. |
| 0:40.5 | From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore, in for David Brancaccio. |
| 0:44.1 | We are at the end of so-called Crypto Week on Capitol Hill, and there is quite a lot to show for it. |
| 0:49.7 | The House approved basically the first major cryptocurrency legislation ever in the U.S. |
| 0:55.5 | This is part of President Trump's push to make America the crypto capital of the world. |
| 1:00.1 | And it's largely a win for the crypto industry. |
| 1:02.1 | One of the bills would lay down rules for a type of cryptocurrency called stable coins. |
| 1:06.2 | Another would affect how crypto markets in general are regulated. |
| 1:09.4 | The BBC's Michelle Flurry in New York has more. |
| 1:12.5 | This is a major shake-up in how Washington treats digital assets. The House just passed two key |
| 1:18.6 | bills that could finally bring structure and credibility to the crypto industry. First up, |
| 1:24.5 | there was the Genius Act, which had already cleared the Senate. |
| 1:33.9 | It passed the House with big bipartisan support and is now headed to the President's desk to be signed into law. |
| 1:40.2 | This measure will help recognise digital assets like cryptocurrency as mainstream financial products, |
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