The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE

The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE

Photographs by Lucy GarrettThe clinic was at the end of a craggy parking lot, in the husk of an old Dollar General, and on a morning in March when its future was more tenuous than ever, people were lining up to see a doctor while they still could.A woman worried she was having a relapse of tuberculosis. A man had a mysterious cyst on his neck. An 87-year-old woman hobbled to the check-in desk.“How’re you doing this morning, Ms. Birdie?” the rece…