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The episode discusses the rural healthcare crisis in America, focusing on the efforts of The Health Wagon to provide care in Appalachia.

It started in a Volkswagen Beetle in 1980. Today it's the nation's oldest free mobile clinic and the need has never been greater. In rural America, people living just a few hundred miles away live 20 years less than their neighbors simply because they can't access care. President Teresa Tyson and Vice President Paula Hill-Collins of The Health Wagon join Jamie Truman to share how they’ve spent over four decades trying to close that gap. In this episode, you’ll hear heartbreaking stories...

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