Congress must act to protect rural Missouri seniors’ health care access

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Congress must act to protect rural Missouri seniors’ health care access

It is time for Congress to address the declining life expectancy and access to care in rural parts of Missouri. Health care disparities exist for many reasons, and some of them are hard to address. But there’s one issue threatening rural health care access that our elected leaders could begin meaningfully addressing right this minute: Medicare’s broken physician payment model. And it’s critical that they do because without immediate action in Co…