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When healthy food is difficult to access, chronic disease often follows, making food insecurity one of the major contributors of poor health in rural communities. Our analysis found that 149 rural Texas census tracts, with a combined population of about 480,000, have high or very high food insecurity vulnerability

When Congress passed a spending package earlier this year, few industries were more disappointed than pharmacy benefit managers. PBMs are middlemen who liaise between insurers, drug manufacturers and pharmacies to determine which drugs are covered at what price. Their job, as the New York Times reported in 2024, “is to reduce drug costs. Instead, they…