U.S.rural health problems: analysis and call for expanded medicaid

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Rural Americans Are Way More Likely To Die Young. Why? - KFF Health News Three words are commonly repeated to describe rural America and its residents: older, sicker and poorer. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on in the nation’s towns than that tired stereotype suggests. But a new report from the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service gives credence to the “sicker” part of the trope. Rural Americans ages […] khnerich KFF Health News

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