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Cossman noted that the healthcare reform bill includes incentives such as increased Medicaid reimbursement rates to primary care physicians for preventative and primary care. [...] provisions in the legislation become regulations, the impact on the Delta won't be known, Fox said, but she noted that health and well-being are the engines that drive a region's economy.
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Delta Already Needs Doctors
The national physician-to-patient ratio average is four to 10,000. In the Mississippi Delta, it's one per 10,000.
"We have a huge access-to-care problem," said Karen Fox, presid...See the full content of this document
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