According to the news release, 59.5 million Americans live in rural communities — about 20 percent of the entire country’s population — and many of those people lack access to affordable healthcare.
The bill, dubbed the Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act, aims to fix that problem. It would provide students who are interested in careers in preventive care with a stipend to attend a community college or other institution that serves rural communities, according to the release. It would also increase support staff so the preventive care programs the students attend can become self-reliant in the long term.
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