Tag: healthcare
RFK Jr.: Making rural America less healthy again
Cuts to SNAP, Medicaid and vaccine programs threaten to make rural America sicker, not healthier, despite promises to “make America healthy again.”
Ohio Farm Bureau to host webinars on health plans
Ohio Farm Bureau will be hosting three virtual webinars this fall, Sept. 30, Oct. 28 and Nov. 25, for the new Ohio Farm Bureau Health Plans.
Rural health systems at risk of closing, cutting services after Medicaid...
Recent cuts to Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act threaten Pa. and Ohio rural health systems that rely on this crucial funding to stay open.
New law paves way for Ohio Farm Bureau Health Plans, expanding...
Ohio Farm Bureau’s new health plans aim to offer affordable, comprehensive coverage for farm families, thanks to a law modeled after Tennessee’s success.
Lack of access to hospitals, grocery stores is killing rural residents:...
Rural Americans are more likely to suffer from conditions like heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and hypertension, and more likely to die from those afflictions, the USDA’s Economic Research Service concluded in a study released in March.
Challenges in rural healthcare discussed by Pa. legislators
If rural hospitals like the ones Dr. Beth Piccione oversees in Lawrence and Mercer counties aren’t supported, vulnerable people won’t be just inconvenienced, “they’ll be in dire straits.”
Paying the price for being sick, old or poor in rural...
If you’re elderly, poor and ill in rural America, the odds that you will receive proper healthcare are dwindling with each passing year.
