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comradebillyboy

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3. Hospitals have been closing in rural areas for

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:38 PM

Mar 2020

quite a while now. It's also difficult to get MDs and other high end professionals to go to those rural areas. As I understand it the problem is related to medicade cutbacks and the weakening of the ACA. So those folks are saying the rural health crisis that exists now is a result of what will happen in the future when the Dems expand health care coverage.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Perhaps Mr. McTurdaugh didn't get the memo about "not politicizing" flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 #1

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Hospitals have been closing in rural areas for comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #3

Well, that's helpful!! nt LAS14 Mar 2020 #4