State health needs diagnosed
Study: Fix must cover rural population, small business
Posted: September 7, 2009 at 2:27 a.m.
Juanita Frazier of Pine Bluff asks a question during a town-hall meeting hosted by U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff on Thursday afternoon.
Arkansas faces unique challenges in the national health-care debate as a mostly poor, rural state with high rates of chronic illness and a large proportion of people working for small businesses, according to politicians and health-care officials.
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