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The Champion of Painkillers
12/28/2011

Overdoses on painkillers lead to nearly 15,000 deaths a year. It is a national epidemic — and one that began largely in rural America.

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Committed to Randol
12/02/2011
Growth and Development | Health | Main Street Economics
The Geography of Disability
11/30/2011

The Social Security disability system began in 1957 as a way to help people too sick to work. By 2009 there was more than 9.6 million Americans counted as disabled. Rates of disability in rural America are 80 percent higher than in the cities.

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Speak Your Piece: Killing Primary Care
11/04/2011

Primary care was supposed to be the centerpiece of President Obama's health care reform bill — the way the country was to reduce the amount it spends on medicine. So why is his administration cutting primary health care allotments by 27 percent?

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Speak Your Piece: Indian 'Health Reform'
10/28/2011

The joke in Indian country is that you can't get sick after June — because that's when the Indian Health Service runs out of money. Not many people are laughing.

Health
Finding Who Lives Longer
10/26/2011

Life expectancy in the U.S. is falling behind most other industrialized counties. And in a large number of rural counties, women are living shorter lives than did rural women of earlier generations. What is driving our longevity to decline?

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Speak Your Piece: This is Not a Test
10/09/2011

Medicare and Medicaid are rural hospitals’ largest payers. Additional cuts are likely to tip many rural hospitals into the red and eventual closure.

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Preparing for Health Care Cuts
08/23/2011

On January 1, federal health care rates for doctors will be cut 29.5% unless Congress acts. The cuts will be harder on primary care physicians — and that means they will cut more deeply in rural communities, which are more dependent on primary care providers.

Ag and Trade | Health | Main Street Economics
Speak Your Piece: The Next Farm Crisis
08/22/2011

When the next farm crisis comes, we won't have the state and local resources to deal with it. If local health administrators can save any for this rainy day, they need to do it.

Health
Dental Care that Works in Rural Alaska
07/28/2011

Remote Alaskan tribes essentially did without dental care — until a new program trained health care workers from the community to provide the basics.

Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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