Funding “Rural Health Care Transformation” Without Shoring Up Failing Hospitals
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The collision between sweeping Medicaid cuts and a far smaller, tightly restricted rural health investment program was the focus of a Jan. 6 virtual panel discussion convened by the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Tradeoffs podcast. The discussion brought together leading academic researchers and two health journalists to examine what the new federal approach means for access, outcomes, and financial stability in rural America.
In the discussion, Dr. Paula Chatterjee pointed to an ongoing 50-year federal effort to incentivize medical professionals to practice in rural areas that has not yet produced evidence showing how to “transform” that problem into a solution.