Dornauer Washington The writer is a visiting fellow in health care and rural affairs at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. But in the handful of swing states that historically determine national elections, the decision to ignore rural voters comes at a high cost. It’s also an open question to what extent Democrats are willing to fight for these rural voters, especially as the party’s social priorities diverge from the average rural American’s. Moreover, Covid killed rural patients at twice the rate of urban ones.īut it’s a fair debate whether those policies truly benefit the patients they are intended to help. Rural Americans are statistically older, sicker, heavier and poorer than their urban counterparts. For example, take the expansion of Medicare and Medicaid. In theory, Democratic policies to benefit rural citizens should work. Re “ In Rural Areas, Prospects Sink for Democrats” (front page, Nov.
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