MedCity News December 16, 2025
Dr. Cole Barfield

These two promising changes in national healthcare policy could transform access to care for millions of Americans.

Access to high quality health care has been a persistent and complex challenge. And it’s one that healthcare innovators have been focused on for decades.

Progress — particularly in the notoriously slow-moving world of healthcare policy — takes time, but we stand at a unique moment of real opportunity. In the past few months, two promising changes in national healthcare policy could transform access to care for millions of Americans.

A needed opportunity for rural healthcare

To start, there’s the creation of the Rural Health Transformation Program in the recent spending bill approved by Congress, a Senate addition that...

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