US EditionOhio suffers badly from health ‘dead zones,’ new report finds
- KFF Health News released a report this week highlighting the challenges faced by low-income rural communities in Ohio, particularly in areas with inadequate broadband service, which are considered 'dead zones'.
- These 'dead zones,' primarily located in Ohio's Appalachian southeast, create a double or triple whammy for residents due to a lack of broadband, resulting in fewer health professionals and limited access to remote healthcare.
- Six Ohio counties, including Carroll, Meigs, Monroe, Pike, and Vinton, met the analysis's definition of a 'dead zone,' while counties like Adams, Brown, Harrison and Hocking lacked adequate broadband and had at least one care desert.
- The National Institute of Healthcare Management Foundation reports growing shortages in rural areas, and Howard Lutnick announced a 'rigorous review' of the spending of over $42 billion earmarked to expand broadband as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, complaining of 'woke mandates' built into the program by the Biden administration.
- Ohio, where 23.7% of residents live in rural areas, lags behind the national average in life expectancy and median household income, and has higher rates of poverty, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, stroke and suicide, raising concerns that broadband expansion funding could be at risk.
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littlebytesnews.com‘Dead Zones’ Where Internet and Health Care Lag
Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump’s administration are taking aim at a $42 billion infrastructure program launched in 2021 to bring high-speed internet to all Americans. Republican critics say the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program from former President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law has been slow to get “shovels into the ground.” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week said the program had t…
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Scioto Valley GuardianOhio suffers badly from health ‘dead zones,’ new report finds
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.When it comes to health, low-income rural communities in Ohio and elsewhere face a double whammy: residents tend to be sicker and they tend to have fewer health professionals.A report released this week by KFF Health News shows that some of those communities actually face a triple whammy. They also lack…
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