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A note from...
Lynne Anderson
Senior Health + Medicine Editor
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There are many benefits to rural life, but health care isn’t one of them. Rural residents are fast losing access to hospitals and doctors, with close to 20% of rural hospitals near collapse. Doctors, particularly specialists such as those who deliver babies and who treat heart disease, in turn shutter their offices for lack of paying patients. Now, a new study suggests that insurers may be adding to the problem by creating “artificial provider deserts” where there are available doctors but they are not included in insurers’ networks, explains Simon Haeder of Pennsylvania State University.
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Dr. Kyle Parks, the only surgeon at Evans Memorial Hospital in Claxton, Ga. The hospital struggles to stay in business while serving large numbers of rural poor.
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Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University
Americans who live in rural parts of the country have fewer doctors, specialists and hospitals than those who live in cities. It also appears that insurers are working against them.
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Politics + Society
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Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Jonah DeChants, Colorado State University
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Zachary Price, University of California, Hastings
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Education
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Julie McCleery, University of Washington
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Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
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Ethics + Religion
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David King, IUPUI
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Brian Clites, Case Western Reserve University
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Robert Muggah, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Science + Technology
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Christopher Palma, Pennsylvania State University
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Karthik Kannan, Purdue University
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Kelley Fanto Deetz, University of Virginia
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