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Girard442

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1. The answer is simple: subsidize rural healthcare workers.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 28, 2018, 12:53 AM

Jul 2018

Healthcare workers of all stripes will gravitate to cities because that's where the best jobs are. They need an incentive to practice in rural areas.

Or you could go with a pure market-based solution: let the country folk die.

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Rural Texas is Struggling to Keep Doctors. A Proposed Medical School Wants to Change That. [View all] TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP

The answer is simple: subsidize rural healthcare workers. Girard442 Jul 2018 #1

So many rural areas have problems keeping doctors. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #2

Osteopathic? Medicine?? Farmer-Rick Jul 2018 #3

Yes, they are allowed to write prescriptions. TexasTowelie Jul 2018 #4