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Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts

KFF Health News · Sarah Jane Tribble · last updated
BRANCHLAND, W.Va. — Ada Carol Adkins lives with her two dogs in a trailer tucked into the timbers off Upper Mud River Road. Her trailer sits halfway up a ridge miles from town and the local health clinic. Her phone and internet are “wacky sometimes,” she said.