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Save Our States' Trent England and Sean Parnell recently wrote in The Center Square about the need for conservative, market-driven solutions to the real problems facing rural healthcare:

Government programs often spiral out of control, harming the very people they were supposed to help. Obamacare was full of such perversities. The most obvious are skyrocketing prices caused by a law that claims to make care “affordable.” While fixing the structure requires action by Congress, the Trump administration has gone into the policy weeds with a machete to fix some of Obamacare’s lesser known, but still destructive, policies.

One of these is a drug program known as 340B. It’s not sexy, but it is big – the second largest drug purchasing program in the nation and growing so fast it will soon be the largest. It lets some hospitals and clinics buy certain prescription medicines at a big discount but sell them to patients at full price.

Read the full op-ed at The Center Square.