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This 3-page paper focuses on a fictitious situation in which the manager of a rural medical clinic must decide what services to add/cut in the face of a departmental budget cut. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Medicaid and other health costs. When such costs are cut, then difficult decisions must sometimes be made. In this essay, the
student has been asked a hypothetical question. If the student was a manager in a county clinic providing care to Medicaid patients, what clinical services would be eliminated and/or introduced
to address the health care needs of the Medicaid population? To answer this question, it would first be helpful to examine what,
exactly, constitutes the Medicaid population and what some of the standard ailments are. Though its difficult to pinpoint specific characteristics of
a "rural population," given geographic distinctions, there are a few standard similarities. Rural populations tend to be older and less educated, have higher rates of poverty and chronic disease, as
well as death from unintentional injuries and motor vehicles (NOSORH, 2006). Added to this, rural populations tend to have very limited access to transportation, as well as limited economic resources
(NOSORH, 2006). Rural populations also tend to have a higher rate of death, as well as a higher rate of poor
health outcomes (Wilson, 2006). Chronic diseases, such as diabetes and asthma are at issue as well (Wilson, 2006). Also, a higher degree
of minority populations tend to live in more rural areas (NOSORH, 2006). Though minority populations do gravitate toward more urban areas,
statistics show that minorities compromise 15% of the total rural population in the U.S., and 30% of the rural poor population (HRSA, 2008). Minorities are not just Hispanic -- they
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