What’s the healthiest county in the state in which you live? A new survey just published by the RWF finds what is essentially common knowledge in the healthcare policy blogosphere —  that persons in more rural counties fare worse than their urban counterparts with respect to decreases in healthcare access, increases in premature death, increases in hospital admissions for the treatment of highly preventable conditions, among other findings.

These findings should come as no surprise, because all (healthcare) politics is local, right? Here in Minnesota, research findings such as these take on an entirely prescient meaning — as our Governor is proposing enormous cuts in spending within the budget this cycle in order to balance it. The vast majority of those cuts are occurring in within the Dept. of Human Services, particularly its wholly funded General Assistance Medical Care public payer program. | LINK

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