Rebecca Cooke: “It's $204 million for this state. You divide that between 72…”

“The Rural Health Transformation Fund, which he talks a lot about, is just a drop in the bucket to what our rural communities actually need. Three, to keep our rural hospitals open and funded. It's $204 million for this state. You divide that between 72 counties, that's about $2 million. It's not enough of what folks used to have. Right. I think that we've got to increase Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates for rural hospitals.” (17:46–17:53)

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