{"id":605163,"date":"2009-11-13T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"6fa4d43c-2256-42fc-a186-94d13a410c0d"},"modified":"2009-11-13T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:51:10","slug":"in-rural-kentucky-an-unexpected-take-on-the-health-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605163","title":{"rendered":"In Rural Kentucky, An Unexpected Take On The Health Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"Frank Browning reports for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/13\/rural-health-care-kentucky.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> on how the health reform debate is playing out in rural\u00a0Kentucky. \"From a strip-mined bluff at the edge of this famous mountain town you can see one of the most concentrated and diverse sets of medical facilities in rural America: a general hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a university-based rural health care center and clinics for primary care, cancer, urology, cardiology, addiction and ear-nose-and throat problems. Yet Hazard, which for 40 years was a coal boomtown, rests at the center of the worst health care region in America\" (11\/13).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/13\/rural-health-care-kentucky.aspx\" >Read the entire story<\/a>. This story has four related videos featuring local health care experiences and perspectives: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Multimedia\/2009\/November\/111309Rural-Nance.aspx\" >Cathy Nance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Multimedia\/2009\/November\/111309Rural-Roll.aspx\" >Gerry Roll<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Multimedia\/2009\/November\/111309Rural-Fox.aspx\" >Annie Fox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Multimedia\/2009\/November\/111309Rural-May.aspx\" >Beverly May<\/a>.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/wQ7jE_JXN_I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Browning reports for Kaiser Health News on how the health reform debate is playing out in rural\u00a0Kentucky. &#8220;From a strip-mined bluff at the edge of this famous mountain town you can see one of the most concentrated and diverse sets of medical facilities in rural America: a general hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a university-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xqH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}