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This column touches on leadership, seeking collaborative benefit, aligning towns, and creating an envisioned rural future. It will also discuss two major new rural initiatives.
This has been an historic, discouraging, and informative week in American politics, and the American people have had it. Really, can all this possibly become
Presented by Charles W. Fluharty (President and CEO, Rural Policy Research Institute) to the Utah Rural Summit in Cedar City, Utah on August 8,2013. View
RUPRI President and CEO Chuck Fluharty offers commentary on how the failure to pass a farm exposes changing realities in the rural landscape that are
RUPRI Health Panel Provides Comments to CMS-2367-P Proposed Rule Medicaid Program; State Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotment Reductions. July 12th, 2013. Read Comment Letter Here
RUPRI President and CEO Chuck Fluharty comments on factors at play in the defeat of the Farm Bill. Written by Charles W. Fluharty for AGRIPULSE
Presented by Charles W. Fluharty (President and CEO, Rural Policy Research Institute) to the Regards to Rural 2013 Rural Development Initiatives in Corvallis, Oregon on
This presentation touches base on three “visions” which is hoped to frame our future. It also explores the changing context for Rural Action’s mission and
RUPRI Health Panel Provided Comments to CMS-1454-P Proposed Rule Physicians’ Referrals to Health Care Entities with Which They Have Financial Relationships: Exception for Certain Electronic
This project examines the implications of changes in Medicare Advantage (MA) payment implemented in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) and