Access to health care articles
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A coverage gap Catch-22: To work, Selinda Walker needs health care. To get health care, she needs work.
As lawmakers debate work requirements in Medicaid expansion bills, Walker faces a Catch-22: she first needs health insurance to get healthy enough to be able to return to work.
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Business leaders urge legislators mulling Medicaid expansion to improve access to health care
Business leaders say "Access to healthcare is not just about individual health, but about the well being of our entire community."
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City-country mortality gap widens amid persistent holes in rural health care access
USDA researchers found rural Americans from the ages of 25 to 54 die from natural causes, like chronic diseases and cancer, at wildly higher rates than the same age group living in urban areas.