{"id":7400,"date":"2025-08-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:00:00","slug":"watch-millions-of-americans-live-where-telehealth-is-out-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=7400","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Millions of Americans Live Where Telehealth Is Out of Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the federal government reworks rules for a $42 billion broadband expansion program, millions of Americans live in places where there aren\u2019t enough health care providers and internet speeds aren\u2019t good enough for telehealth. A KFF Health News analysis found people in these \u201cdead zones\u201d live sicker and die younger on average than their peers in well-connected regions.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News has partnered with InvestigateTV to tell the stories of residents whose health care falls into the gap. InvestigateTV\u2019s Caresse Jackman and KFF Health News\u2019 Sarah Jane Tribble take viewers to Alabama, Idaho, and West Virginia to explain why those connectivity gaps persist.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the full investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/dead-zone\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/watch-millions-rural-america-telehealth-dead-zones-internet-speeds-broadband\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the federal government reworks rules for a $42 billion broadband expansion program, millions of Americans live in places where there aren\u2019t enough health care providers and internet speeds aren\u2019t good enough for telehealth. A KFF Health News analysis found people in these \u201cdead zones\u201d live sicker and die younger on average than their peers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}