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Alaska’s health department is racing against the clock to pick winners from 1,800 proposals vying for $272 million in federal rural health cash—narrowing it down to 400 projects that must focus on innovation, not buildings or Medicaid replacement. Ideas range from drone meds to VR career training, sparking debate over whether this tech-heavy program can truly fix rural healthcare’s deeper problems like insurance access. With funds vanishing if unused, and much likely flowing to out-of-state tech firms, the state’s final decisions loom by June 22.

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