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Study: Rural residents more likely to struggle with medical debt

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NOVEMBER 23, 2024

By Liz Carey The Daily Yonder According to new research from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center , rural residents are not significantly more likely to be worried about their medical bills than their urban counterparts, but they are more likely to have trouble paying them. percent compared to 6 percent).

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. health care system and structural barriers have led to persistent health inequities that cost more than a million lives and billions of dollars, according to the national academies report.

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Study: Rural residents more likely to struggle with medical debt

Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

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