New Rural Health Funding Only a Bandage for Medicaid Wound

By: Paul Cuno-Booth

Outlets: Business NH Magazine

Published: July 13, 2026

Words: 2,115

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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When Annette Carbonneau thinks about the challenges of rural health care, she thinks about an 83-year-old woman from Colebrook who lost her Medicaid coverage two years ago.

Suffering from arthritis, the woman struggled to fill out her Medicaid paperwork and her renewal was denied. She couldn’t afford to pay out-of-pocket on the $813 per month she got from Social Security and started postponing medical care.

A community health worker spent six weeks trying …

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