Last week, as congressional Democrats continued to vote to keep the federal government closed , the Commonwealth of Virginia , along with the rest of the states, submitted our plan to unlock our share of the $50 billion provided in the Working Families Tax Cut Act, slated to transform the way we deliver healthcare to rural America.

Without a doubt, rural Americans face a gap when it comes to access to reliable healthcare . In Virginia, nearly 55% of rural localities are designated as Primary Health Care Professional Shortage areas, while 63% of Virginia localities lack an OB-GYN, and 22% of rural Virginians travel over 40 minutes to reach a labor and delivery unit. This fact has been often lamented over the decades, and frequently, the proposed solution has been massive subsidies t

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