Rural health funds going to the wrong places

As reported in The Daily Yonder (Tyler Dedrick, April 27), an analysis (Chatterjee et al., JAMA, 2026) of a 5 year, 50 billion federal initiative to fund rural healthcare systems found funds are not being distributed equally according to need: KY, second only to MS in age-adjusted rural mortality (1140/100,000), received just $95 per rural resident, far below the average $391.