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a cce s s H ea l t h N ews . n e t Fe b r u a ry 2 0 2 6 Volume 11 | Issue No. 104 13 The safety net has not disappeared. But it has frayed. And rural communities are discovering that when the margin for error shrinks, geography becomes destiny.