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700 Rural Hospitals Are Now at Risk of Closing. The States With the Most at Risk Voted by the Widest Margins for the Law Doing It.
A third of the country's remaining rural hospitals are now at risk of closure because of a specific federal Medicaid law — and the five states with the most at-risk hospitals delivered some of the largest election margins in the country for the party that passed it.
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Rural Counties Rely on Public Assistance at a Higher Rate Than Cities Do. Which Word Gets Used for That Reliance Depends on Who the Country Pictures Receiving It.
USDA data shows rural counties have higher SNAP participation rates than cities, and most recipients nationally are White -- not the urba...
34.6% of US Counties Are Now Maternity Care Deserts. In 60% of Recent Closures, It Was the Only Birthing Facility the County Had.
Labor-and-delivery units are one of the first services a financially strained hospital cuts — not because the need is smaller, but becaus...
A Yale Study Says Single-Payer Would Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives a Year. Congress Just Cut $911 Billion the Other Direction.
In the same year a Yale School of Public Health study projected that full federalization of US healthcare would save $1.04 trillion and 1...
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