To the editor:

Last week, the NH Department of Health and Human Services released a report on the health status of rural residents. The numbers are sobering. Rural Granite Staters experience poverty rates 41 percent higher than their non-rural neighbors. Adult Medicaid enrollment is 45 percent higher. Life expectancy in the North Country is 6.6 years shorter than in the Upper Valley. These aren’t abstractions — they are our neighbors, our family members, our communities.

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