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Patrick Morrisey: “We kept looking at the correlation between poor health care…”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Moundsville

Published November 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 21:37

But one of the things we found as we keep diving into different ways to help our state lift up and reach her potential, is that We kept looking at the correlation between poor health care outcomes and low workforce participation. And the more we looked at that, we knew we have to do something about it. (21:37–21:46)

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“West Virginia is ranked at the bottom for obesity, diabetes, prevalence of COPD, and congestive heart failure.”
Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Moundsville | Uploaded November 6, 2025 | 40:50-40:58
“West Virginia has the worst workforce participation rate in the country, fueled by poor healthcare outcomes.”
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“West Virginia has the highest disability incident rate in America.”
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“We submitted a Rural Health Application grant.”
Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Moundsville | Uploaded November 6, 2025 | 21:01-21:05
“We received feedback from people all across West Virginia, including many people in the Northern Panhandle.”
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“I've been having discussions with the Trump administration now since the beginning of his term, about the importance of rural health.”
Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Moundsville | Uploaded November 6, 2025 | 21:51-22:00
“The Trump administration is aligned with the work we're doing here in West Virginia to improve health care outcomes.”
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“We've developed an application designed to improve the affordability of health care in West Virginia and the accessibility of health care.”
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“We announced a number of fundamentals as part of this healthcare plan. One was to clean up the food system.”
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“The law that we passed related to some of those terrible dyes that were in place.”
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“One of the planks that we have within our Rural Health Transformation Fund is bring back the Presidential Fitness Test to West Virginia.”
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“This Rural Health Transformation application that we submitted yesterday will provide, at least, if it's accepted, at least $100 million per…”
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“We want to make it so that it's easier for you to either physically go and connect with the provider or have the provider come to you…”
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“Resources [for the healthcare initiative] could flow as early as January, assuming it gets approved.”
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“We intend to set up a one stop health mobility platform that's going to connect the medical transportation to the public systems that are…”
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“West Virginia needs to recruit, retain and retrain. Recruit, retain and retrain. We have shortages of a number of healthcare professionals.”
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“We're also supporting community and technical college faculty positions.”
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“We also want to modernize a lot of our healthcare systems to make sure that providers and consumers can help save money.”
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“We're going to be spending a lot of time with our healthcare systems to collaborate with them and look at value based care models so we can…”
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“We also have a health to prosperity pipeline where building, building to make sure we can get more people to work, connecting recovery and…”
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“Expanding recovery to work programs, partnering with employers on wellness initiatives, and rewarding transitions from Medicaid to…”
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“We have over 3000 pages of comments [on the healthcare initiative].”
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“We sat down with over 35, 40 people [in roundtables] and conducted interviews with over 40 different sets of entities and groups.”
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“We've invested to try to make our regulatory system better, to cut red tape faster.”
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“There's about a two and a half times multiplier with our GDP [from the investment].”
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“CMS will decide by the end of the year what they're going to do [with the application].”
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“Implementation begins in January.”
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“You're talking about 500 to $800 million public monies and then you're talking private sector leverage.”
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“We submitted it [the application] yesterday.”
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“This is the single biggest healthcare announcement we've seen and the biggest investment in terms of raw dollars.”
Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Moundsville | Uploaded November 6, 2025 | 53:23-53:31
“It's a five year program and it's if we're successful, it's a minimum of $100 million per year.”
Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Moundsville | Uploaded November 6, 2025 | 53:54-54:02
“If ever there's a state that would benefit from rural health transformation... It's West Virginia.”
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