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Rural health care programs extended in fiscal cliff fix

Several rural health care programs were extended in the fiscal cliff bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama that also extended the farm bill for one year. Garrett Hawkins, national legislative director for the Missouri Farm Bureau, tells Brownfield Ag News that the Low-Volume Hospital Program and the Medicare-Dependent Hospital Program have also been extended for a year.

“Both are really aimed at trying to help provide stability to small, especially rural hospitals and, ultimately, continue to have that access there to health care especially that’s so important to seniors,”  Hawkins tells Brownfield Ag News.

AUDIO: Garrett Hawkins (4:00 mp3)

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