Studying up on the health and wellness in our own county, it seems that there will be a certain percentage of individuals who lack health care and thus won't be able receive the aid they need.
From reading "Health Status and Health Care Access of Farm and Rural Populations" (Link located below), in certain rural areas many residents have higher rates of heart disease and other disease in general compared to others. The primary concern for lack of said healthcare access came from the cost of healthcare as a whole. Simply put some were able to afford it while other's were not. As for the health care concerns in rural areas, it is mainly because the population is essentially older, having low income levels as well as lower education.
Even though the statistics and information was gathered in 2009, if one were to compare health care overall from 2009 and 2011. Would the amount of health care access to residents have decreased or increased? While I haven't looked too far into this myself I hope it's the latter.
Link: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB57/EIB57_ReportSummary.pdf
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