"Other people don't like to say bad things about rural areas," Michael Katz, former FCC economist began, "So I will." This statement is the foundation for the NPR story that makes an argument that investment in rural america is a waste of money, which you can find and listen to here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100739283
This "opposition research" is vital to our understanding of the counter-arguments to all of what we're about at NRHA. Broadband deployment to rural areas is the backbone to HIT modernization. These arguments, in addition to others, over time will create a two-tiered system of healthcare in the USA, the connected and not-connected. Also known as the digital divide, and its face will be urban and rural.