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Local doctors and residents warn Lt. Gov. Beckwith about rural hospital and public-health funding
Summary
At the town hall, retired family physician Jim Turner and others warned that Medicaid changes and reductions in public-health funding threaten rural hospitals; Beckwith said he did not expect Medicaid to be eliminated and agreed state support for rural hospitals is needed.
Retired family physician Jim Turner told Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith that roughly 55 rural hospitals operate in Indiana and that four were "on the brink of closing," and he urged the lieutenant governor to press for continuing Medicaid support and better public-health funding. "You have to support that," Turner said, and encouraged Beckwith to visit Terre Haute’s Indiana University rural training…
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