The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.

What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?

TB and HIV-infected patients who can’t pay for high-end medical insurance but can afford GP visits opt for state care, which offers better treatment.

Once minor aesthetic procedures, such as Botox injections and "fillers", had to be administered by a medical specialist: now my GP does them in betwee