Rural Virginia has been kind to the GOP, yet Trump’s GOP allows rural healthcare to suffer

By: Bob Lewis

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: July 27, 2026

Words: 1,146

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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It would be easy to blame Republicans — especially the present White House occupant — for the steady atrophying of healthcare that’s readily accessible to Virginians in rural areas. You wouldn’t be wrong.

You wouldn’t be totally right either.

Policies put in place during President Donald Trump’s second term contribute substantially to the declining availability of medical care in the rural communities of the commonwealth — the same communities that are, by far, Trump’s strongest …

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