Without health care and related jobs, the United States would have nearly 400,000 fewer jobs than it did a year ago, according to Labor Department figures through January.
The effort launched in 2023 after IU Health leaders identified lung cancer screening as a major gap in preventive care, particularly outside large urban centers.
Madeline Zieger, a physician assistant, has been working for IU Health Medical Group in the burn centers at both Riley Hospital for Children and Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital for more than 30 years.
The White House declined to specify how much money had been raised for the project or respond to questions about whether or how contributors could benefit.
On top of automating rote tasks, government agencies have launched hundreds of artificial intelligence projects in the past year, many of them taking on central and sensitive roles in law enforcement, immigration and health care.
Getting the average American to work one year longer by starting earlier or retiring later would generate about $3 trillion for the economy, said the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
