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Someone decided these counties don't count -- twice
More than 2.2 million Americans live without running water, concentrated in the Navajo Nation, Texas border colonias, Appalachia, and the Alabama Black Belt. The Texas counties farthest from water are the same counties farthest from a hospital -- because Texas never expanded Medicaid.
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Nobody's county pays for itself
Two counties, four hundred miles apart, both live on money earned somewhere else. In one, a third of households receive food assistance. ...
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...
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 s...
Twenty-Five Minutes From an Ambulance
As rural hospitals close, the ride to care gets longer and the ride starts later. A 2026 Alaska study found a 262-minute median from the ...
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