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As the nation is reeling again from a violent act of white supremacy to the pending SCOTUS decision on abortion rights to the fragility of the access to vote, Black women are still facing unrelenting attacks on their fundamental rights and freedoms in America.

Since the 2013 Shelby v. Holder decision, state-level voter suppression laws have increased where anti-choice bills and laws are plentiful. These laws disproportionately impact Black womens right to vote and access to all forms of reproductive healthcare and abortion literally silencing their voices and controlling their bodies.

With the threat to end Roe v. Wade at the forefront of our national discourse, many often forget that the majority of women who seek an abortion in the United States are already mothers. According to the Guttmacher Institute, an estimated 59 percent of abortions were obtained by women with children.

Voting is being touted as a tool to offset the impact of a Roe reversal, but the reality is voting as a Black mother has barriers, especially in Georgia. As a new mother in 2018, my fianc and I decided to vote early, believing wed be able to avoid major lines. We ventured out with our four-month-old daughter to one of our local early voting locations.

We were shocked by the line wrapped around the building because there werent enough voting machines for the number of people in line. I remember struggling to keep my baby swaddled in the crisp November air and thinking about where I could nurse her once I was inside. We waited in line for three hours that day, and I know my experience isnt unique.

At the organization I founded and lead, Women Engaged, we listen to the stories of other Black women across the state who have to navigate similar challenges when voting. Mothers have critical decisions they must make to exercise their right to vote.

Will my child or children be able to handle waiting in line for multiple hours? Can I make it to my childs daycare on time to pick them up if I find myself waiting in a long line to vote? How can I ensure a safe environment for my family when voting?

As mothers, so much is on the line for us, our families and our communities this year. But the question remains, how do we ensure every mother can cast their ballot?

During Women Engageds 2018 election protection work in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Pittsburgh in Southwest Atlanta, we were able to hand out snacks to waiting voters and their hungry children, many of who had been waiting in line for four hours.

The so-called Election Integrity Act of 2021, otherwise known as SB202, prevents people from distributing food or water to voters standing in line, which impacts the voter and anyone standing in line with them, including their children. Voters in Georgia must now navigate voter suppression bills that attempt to restrict voters basic needs to vote, disproportionately impacting Black women and creating another obstacle for disenfranchised populations to exercise their right to vote.

When Black women vote consistently and their access is protected, they vote with their communities and families in mind. Something SB202 attempts to undermine. Given the history of long lines and wait times, we cannot assume every person can take time off.

Voters who lack adequate childcare or paid time off to vote may choose between their childrens comfort and waiting in a long line to vote. Paid time off to vote is not universal, nor are companies required to provide it to employees.

Also, as major decisions regarding the bodies of Black women continue to be on the ballot, local and federal policymakers must ensure our right to vote is fully protected under the law. Congress must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would prevent states from attempting to police elections without federal approval.

Black mothers and women must have a space to use their voices and champion the critical issues that affect our bodies through free and fair access to the ballot box. In a statewide poll, funded by ProGeorgia and administered by my team at Women Engaged and other community partners, out of 30,000 people surveyed, nearly 80 percent reported childcare for children under 12 would help them vote.

We believe that state policymakers and the Board of Elections should partner with childcare centers near polling locations to better support Black mothers and others needing childcare while they vote. When Georgians take the Women Engaged pledge to vote, they can indicate their needs, such as childcare, and we help connect them to resources to assist them in those services.

Access to comprehensive reproductive health care can help reduce Georgias high maternal mortality rate for Black women. Georgias expansion of Medicaid would ensure all Black women can afford and access quality healthcare.

Voting rights are fundamental to a healthy democracy, and reproductive rights are critical to self-determination. Black mothers can create the changes we hope to see in the future for ourselves, our families, and our communities and we demand to have our voices heard and needs met.

Malika Redmond is the co-founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Women Engaged.

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By John DiGenio

Monday, May 30, Memorial Day, is a time of and a time for solemnity to honor our distinguished fallen heroes.

A hero, in this sense, is any member of the Armed Services valiantly executing his (or her) duties, sometimes wondering why, for, at times, it seemed so foolish, so worthless, and so wasteful. But the courageous service member performed, sometimes at the cost of his (or her) own life.

Memorial Day makes me reflect on the Korean War. The Demilitarized Zone the DMZ separating North and South Korea allows one to fully comprehend the true meaning of Memorial Day. It reinforces the important lesson that the blessings of liberty come at a great cost.

Korea remains one of the worlds remaining flashpoints. The DMZ, the final frontier separating liberty from tyranny, serves as a grim reminder that the acrimonious flames of the Cold War have yet to be fully extinguished. An eerie, thunderous silence permeates the Joint Security Area, the Demilitarized Zone, running along the 38th Parallel that separates the prosperous south from its bellicose neighbor to the north.

North Korea maintains one of the largest, forward deployed standing armies in the world. North Koreas offensive posture -- coupled with its continuing development of ballistic missiles, weapons of mass destruction, and highly trained special operations forces -- causes the Korean peninsula to be highly volatile. North Korea has reneged on almost every international agreement. That rogue state participates in illicit activities such as prostitution and human trafficking, supporting terrorist activities, narcotics and weapons trade, and counterfeiting U.S. currency to disrupt the stability of the Korean peninsula and the Pacific theater, undermine efforts to combat international terrorism, and weaken the enduring and endearing alliance between the Republic of Korea and the United States of America, an alliance forged on the battlefield and sealed by the lives of those who courageously fought to preserve freedom and democracy.

Some 72 years ago, on June 25, 1950, well-equipped military forces from a Soviet-backed North Korea invaded the South. By that time, considering the events that had just occurred in Europe, the Western world had become more aware, more concerned and more apprehensive about the aggressive and oppressive maneuverings of rogue nations. Consequently, led by the United States, the Allied world responded to the Norths aggression.

Technically speaking, since no peace treaty has ever been signed to permanently terminate hostilities, South Korea, the Allied nations and North Korea remain at war. Instead, an armistice, an agreement to temporarily cease hostilities, remains in effect. By the time the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, some 37,000 U.S. and 138,000 South Korean military members had given their lives to defend and secure freedom on the Korean peninsula. Their ultimate sacrifices were not in vain!

Today, the Republic of Korea stands as a living testimony to the sacrifices made during the Korean War. The Republic of Korea is a miraculous success story. Antiquated infrastructures have succumbed to modern technological developments. Parochial economic systems have acquiesced to expanding interest and active participation in international markets, to the extent that the Republic of Korea has the 10th largest economy in the world.

Without the hardships endured by U.S. service members heroically executing their duties in places such as the Busan Perimeter, the Chosin Reservoir, Heartbreak Ridge, and Pork Chop Hill, South Korea would have been denied the opportunity to emerge as a free, independent, and self-determined nation.

The Republic of Korea and the United States continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a combined effort to defend Freedoms Frontier along the 38th Parallel. Our two nations are firmly committed to preserving the peace, prosperity and liberty in the Republic of Korea.

Over the years, we have corrupted this day of reverence into just another national holiday. Sadly, we tend to take for granted the ultimate sacrifices that brave individuals have made to preserve those endearing and enduring freedoms and liberties that all of us enjoy.

On Memorial Day, we should remember the valuable lesson of the Korean War: Freedom is never free. We should take some time to reflect on those brave individuals of the Armed Services who died so we can continue to enjoy the blessings of liberty and live in freedom.

John DiGenio is a resident of Jersey City currently employed with U.S. Forces Korea. The views expressed are his and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. government.

Send letters to the editor and guest columns for The Jersey Journal to jjletters@jjournal.com.

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It was no surprise that the recent law proposed in India forcing VPN companies (among others) to retain data for up to five years, sparked such outrage across the tech industry and its users. A number of the best VPN services vocally criticized the new directive, raising concerns over the negative impact it would have on people's privacy.

However, India is not alone. This is just the latest attempt to curb the freedom of the internet as we know it. As ExpressVPN vice president Harold Li told us: "While we find their actions deeply concerning, this type of excessive government interference is neither new nor unique in the current geopolitical landscape."

According to the 2021 Freedom House report, at least 48 countries out of the 70 analyzed carried out legislative or administrative actions with the aim of regulating tech companies over the past year. New regulations range from how platforms treat content to how these need to store and share users' data.

Although all this isn't necessarily a bad thing - if well-crafted these directives actually have the potential to mitigate online harm - these regulations can easily be abused to enforce mass surveillance on citizens while repressing dissident voices.

In a world where the freedom of the internet keeps worsening - according to Freedom House this has already been happening for 11 years in a row - what's at stake for people's privacy and free speech online?

India's new data law is only the latest move from governments to acquire more control over people's data while undermining the work of security software like proxies and virtual private networks. As a government official said to The Economic Times: "It's an evolution. All the countries are moving in that direction."

That's sadly true. Around 38 nations pursued legal reforms affecting tech companies management of users' data in 2021, Freedom House reported. Like in the case of India, domestic data storage is particularly worrying in countries with a bad track record when it comes to citizen surveillance in the name of public security.

This type of excessive government interference is neither new nor unique in the current geopolitical landscape.

Across Asia, governments have been recently active in drafting new rules or implementing old legislation. As Pakistani lawyer and internet activist Nighat Dad told Wired UK: "South Asian governments are basically competing with each other in this operational Olympics around violating the digital rights of their citizens.

Vietnam's Cybersecurity Law now requires both large and small online platforms to collect data on local servers for authorities to access in case of public order related matters. The vagueness of this directive puts journalists and activists at high risk. The same thing happened in Bangladesh with its new data protection bill, while Pakistan is seeking to force social media companies to establish data servers within the country.

Concerns have also been raised in Indonesia where, since the end of 2020, digital platforms must register with the communications ministry whilst granting access to their systems and data on request. Not to mention China with its 2017 Cybersecurity Law that is forcing tech companies to store users' data on local servers and decrypt those following authorities' orders.

And the trend keeps enduring with countries like United Arabic Emirates and Turkey, for example, requiring the local storage of users' confidential data. In Iran, if the proposed Regulatory System for Cyberspace Services Bill becomes law, foreign tech firms will need to collect and provide the identity and history of their users activities upon government request.

Not just the privacy and security of users' data is under siege, governments across the world are threatening to undermine encryption too. This process to scramble data to make it unreadable to third parties is the base for cybersecurity tools like Tor and VPN services as well as secure messaging apps such as Signal.

In May 2021, WhatsApp sued the Indian government stating that the traceability requirements of identifying the "first originator of information" will actually violate the constitutional right to privacy. At the same time, Pakistan requires social media and service providers with more than 500,000 users to share with authorities decrypted data if requested.

Under the proposed Internet Freedom, Responsibility, and Transparency Act, in Brazil private messaging apps will need to store for three months data of viral messages - these are those forwarded to more than five accounts that reach at least 1,000 users.

There are also many countries where VPNs have been made illegal (like in Russia, Turkey, North Korea), while other nations are trying to ban (Iran, for example) or limiting their use for similar reasons (China and UAE).

The battle against end-to-end encryption seems to be at the top of worldwide democratic leaders' agenda, too. They see this practice as an impediment to national security, criminal, and child sexual abuse investigations. However, these regulations still have the potential of being misused to the detriment of civil liberties.

Take the controversial EU draft rules to counter child abuses online as an example. Once becoming law, it will force messaging companies to scan private chats to check for harmful content. If implemented, the directive will bring in a de facto ban to end-to-end encryption.Privacy experts are calling the invasive proposal unworkable, leading to creeping mass surveillance. While other fears that this could also undermine US users, where abortion rights are rapidly declining.

Furthermore, the attempt to moderate the content shared online is sparking concerns among experts. With more and more countries proposing new legislations aimed to take direct control on social media platforms' moderation content, a limited freedom of expression and increased censorship online seems to be the possible outcomes.

"The danger posed by the worst initiatives is immense," reads the 2021 Freedom of the Net report. "If placed in the hands of the state, the ability to censor, surveil, and manipulate people en masse can facilitate large-scale political corruption, subversion of the democratic process, and repression of political opponents and marginalized populations."

Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka all have been reported to experience a decline in internet freedom, with Myanmar marking the most severe downturn that the report has ever documented.

Not to mention countries like Russia, China and Turkey where social media platforms and dissident voices are actively censored on an almost daily basis.

However, even Western democracies are seeking to expand their control over what people post online. Even if the apparent intention might be aimed to eliminate harmful speech, the opportunity for these regulations to be abused is high.

Even though the UK Online Safety Bill - currently being discussed in the House of Common - recognizes the duty to protect journalistic content and free of expression, every day users will have their posts removed if deemed "legal but harmful" content.

The vagueness of this directive, together with the fact that politicians will have a say to what social media platforms will need to censor, has sparked many concerns. So far, a petition against this point has already reached more than 50,000 signatures.

As the founder of Hide.me VPN, Sebastian Schaub, wrote recently on TechRadar: "Internet freedom is very much under threat. When you see governments around the world making moves to exert greater control over their internet fiefdoms, it is done under a banner of falsehoods - citizens are told that it is being done for some kind of greater good, to provide safety or to keep business strong.

The truth is that they want greater control over their people, the ability to spy on them, to deny them platforms from which they can espouse their views. That people should be free to share ideas, knowledge and opinions with others underpins the notion of free speech, democracy, freedom."

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PublishedMay 22, 2022 6:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Navy has commissioned the first of the six Freedom-class littoral combat ships that it intends to keep, USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS-21).

All previous vessels in the class have been nominatedfor early retirement in the Navy's latest budget proposal, including USS Freedom (deactivated), Fort Worth, Milwaukee, Detroit, Little Rock, Sioux City, Wichita, Billings, Indianapolis and St. Louis. According to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, the anti-submarine warfare sonar system for the class has failed to perform, and since it has been canceled, there is no need for the Navy to carry the operating cost for so many Freedom-class LCS.

Combined with savings from the retirement of Ticonderoga-class cruisers, removing legacy Freedom-class hulls would help save the Navy $3.6 billion in operating costs over five years - funds that the service could use on systems that "actually move the needle in a high end fight with an adversary like China," Gilday said in a recent congressional hearing.

However, there is no guarantee that Congress will allow the service to retire so many new ships, the youngest of which is less than two years old. Several high-ranking members of the House Defense Appropriations and Seapower subcommittees have objected strongly because the retirements would reduce the quantity of hulls in the fleet.

If Congress forbidsdecommissioning, the existing Freedom-class hulls would have to be repaired in order to attain their design speed. Due to a flawed bearing design in the drivetrain's complex gearbox, the previously-delivered Freedom-class vessels cannot sustain top speed; at present, the class isrestricted to a (relatively) lower pace of about 35 knots.

The Navy halted deliveries for the Freedom-class until the issue was fixed, and the brand new USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul was the testbed for the repair procedure. PEO Unmanned and Small Combatants commander Rear Adm. Casey Moton told Defense News that it took six months to removeunrelatedequipment, gainaccess to the gearbox, make the repair, put everything back together and conduct sea trials.

The repairs were successful, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul was accepted in November and commissioned on Saturday. Vice Admiral Scott Conn, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities, spoke at the ceremony. Thank you all for preparing LCS-21 for this day, said Conn. I recognize how special it is to be together for this milestone, and to spend this day bringing the newest ship in our fleet to life in this way. And more so, to do it in the state of her namesake cities is unique and special.

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I am supporting exceptional candidate Steven Bradley a Republican of Cascade, Iowa as our State Representative for House District 66 in our June 7 Primary election. Steve is an essential Republican leader of Iowans with his smart policy reforms on tax relief for individuals and business, ESAs and school choice opportunity, growth of our workforce in Iowa and addressing regulatory barriers in healthcare and industry.

In 2020 Steven Bradley easily ousted Andy McKean, a former Republican who switched to Democrat, from our District 58 seat. Voters could no longer trust Andy. In June 7, 2022s Primary election Steve will be running against Lee Hein who currently serves in District 96. Voting records do not lie and abortion will be an issue. Hein voted against the fetal heartbeat abortion ban and during this current term voted against HJR 5 that would add abortion neutrality language to Iowas Constitution. Bradley voted for that proposed amendment.

Steven has demonstrated he solidly votes Pro-Life, no ifs, ands or buts. As our Iowa State Representative Steven Bradley has shown Iowans his respect for our values and continues to listen and support us in keeping Iowa a great place to raise our families, run our businesses and live our lives with freedom and prosperity.

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PEEP, by Danielle Blau. (Waywiser, paper, $17.) The winsome, intellectually probing poems in Blaus debut collection examine lived experience through the lens of myth, memory and rigorous philosophical inquiry, with one eye on the instant when, at this moments close, youll cross the border / into the moment after. Your shadows growing shorter.

36 VIEWS OF FUJI: Poems, by Kenton Wing Robinson. (Antrim House, paper, $25.) Robinsons title evokes Hokusai, and the form hes invented evokes haiku: Most of these poems contain three stanzas of three lines each, with frequent glances at nature. But as a whole they have a novelistic sweep, from childish wonder to an illicit affair to encroaching death.

LINE AND LIGHT: Poems, by Jeffrey Yang. (Graywolf, paper, $18.) Yangs fifth book takes the creative impulse itself as its subject, paying tribute to poetic forebears like Jean Valentine and Kamau Brathwaite, celebrating visionary cultures and supplementing the poems with drawings by the artist Kazumi Tanaka.

YOU CAN BE THE LAST LEAF: Selected Poems, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Translated by Fady Joudah. (Milkweed, paper, $16.) The Palestinian poets U.S. debut gathers two decades of her intimate testimony about private life in a public war zone, where those who win by killing fewer children / are losers.

I KNOW WHATS BEST FOR YOU: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, edited by Shelly Oria. (McSweeneys, paper, $21.99.) In this collection that spans identity and genre, writers explore a breadth of experiences involving human reproduction, including pregnancy, surrogacy, and sterilization.

PUBLIC FACES, SECRET LIVES: A Queer History of the Womens Suffrage Movement, by Wendy L. Rouse. (NYU Press, $27.) Rouse, a historian, highlights the often unrecognized queer history of the womens suffrage movement and argues that queer suffragists challenged traditional notions of family, space and death both subtly and radically.

CALIFORNIA: An American History, by John Mack Faragher. (Yale University, $28.50.) A history of the most ecologically diverse and multicultural state in the country, from the conflict, turmoil and violence of Indigenous dispossession to the resistance of people like Archy Lee and Marilyn Greene.

A FACTOTUM IN THE BOOK TRADE, by Marius Kociejowski. (Biblioasis, paper, $18.95.) In this memoir, the Canadian poet and travel writer recounts his life in the antiquarian book business and his encounters with characters both real and fictional.

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May 23, 2022

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.President-electRepublic of the PhilippinesMalacaang PalaceSan Miguel, ManilaPhilippines

Via email: [emailprotected]

Dear President-elect Marcos:

As you prepare to assume the presidency of the Philippines, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent non-governmental organization advocating for press freedom worldwide, is writing to draw attention and request your leadership in reversing your predecessors abusive acts and policies targeting independent media and journalists and restoring the Philippines once-proud standing as a regional bastion of press freedom.

In order to undo outgoing President Rodrigo Dutertes long campaign of intimidation and harassment of the press, CPJ urges you to give top priority to this urgent task. The legitimacy of your administration should be based on independently reported facts that allow for the kind of true public accountability that is the hallmark of strong democracies. The people of the Philippines deserve no less.

To start with, your administration should end the relentless persecution of journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa, a global beacon of press freedom. CPJ calls on your government to immediately drop all pending charges against Ressa, her colleagues, and the Rappler media group. These cases range from trumped-up tax charges to cyber libel accusations that threaten to shutter Rappler and carry potential prison penalties for those charged.

Prior to the Nobel, Ressa was honored with CPJs Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award for her courage against the Duterte governments persistent harassment and threat. As Ressa continues to carry the torch for press freedom globally, journalists worldwide and more than 80 organizations that form the Hold the Line Coalition are watching for Ressas fate. Your administration should take a decisive turn toward upholding press freedom by turning the page on your predecessors punitive actions and policies and allowing the news group to operate freely without fear of reprisal. That includes allowing access to Rappler reporter Lian Buan, who reports she was shoved and blocked by your security detail on the campaign trail and ignored by your spokesperson when asked questions.

We also strongly call on your government to restore the operating franchise of ABS-CBN, previously your nations largest TV news broadcaster, which the government ordered off the air. Duterte repeatedly threatened not to renew ABS-CBNs 25-year franchise agreement before Congress decided against its application. The independent news group continues to broadcast online, but the loss of its operating franchise has decimated its national television audience, forcing the station to significantly downsize operations.

We also urge your government to cease the red-tagging of journalists, the wrongful and dangerous labeling of reporters as supporters of the banned communist insurgency. Dutertes administration made red-tagging de facto government policy and employed the practice to threaten, harass, and jail journalists. Red-tagging is especially dangerous considering the Philippine militarys alleged role in extrajudicial killings and torture of accused communists.

In particular, we call on you to exercise your executive authority to drop the red tagging-related charges pending against journalist Frenchiemae Cumpio, who has been languishing behind bars for over two years on an illegal firearm charge that her colleagues and advocacy groups say was trumped up to silence her Eastern Vista news publications reporting on the Philippine militarys operations against communist rebels and alleged associated human rights abuses.

More broadly, we implore your government to prioritize ending the enduring culture of impunity in the killing of Filipino journalists. CPJs latest Impunity Index, a quantitative measure of the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of the population, shows the Philippines is persistently among the most dangerous places worldwide to be a journalist.

While we recognize the Duterte administrations creation of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security, a state agency tasked with resolving the cases of murdered reporters, the body has made only marginal progress in bringing the killers of journalists to full justice and at one juncture disingenuously declared an end of impunity in your country. Under your watch, the task forces mission should be reaffirmed and its work in solving media killings expedited.

As the Philippines newly elected leader, you have the mandate to reassert your countrys damaged democratic credentials by forthrightly promoting and protecting press freedom. We urge you to seize this important moment and state clearly from the outset that journalists will be free to report without fear of reprisal, intimidation, or imprisonment during your tenure.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,

Jodie Ginsberg, President

Committee to Protect Journalists

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Working millennials are known for being adaptable, dedicated, and creative individuals who embrace self-improvement through a balanced lifestyle. Their effectiveness in the workplace is greatly influenced by work-life balance. As a result, millennials maintain a healthy professional life while still making time for the things they care about most outside of work.

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Young professionals often express their thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways. They explore each of their talents in order to unveil and produce their best possible content. The 5G connectivity of the Galaxy M23 5G and M33 5G, combined with RAM Plus Technology, improves high-level performance that is best for live streaming and online selling allowing them to take their crafts to new heights.

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Young professionals can be unstoppable and limitless when it comes to pursuing their passions with the help of the Samsung Galaxy M23 5G and Galaxy M33 5G.

The Galaxy M33 5G is available in Blue, Brown, and Green for a special discounted price of PHP 16,990 SRP, down from its original price of PHP 19,490 SRP. Meanwhile, the Galaxy M23 5G is available in Light Blue, Deep Green, and Orange Copper for PHP 15,490 SRP, down from its original price of PHP 17,990 SRP. Both units are available at a discounted price exclusively online until June 30, 2022.[1]

For more information about the Galaxy M23 5G and M33 5G, visit samsung.com/ph.

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The tools we need to achieve long-term stability for community providers and ensure better outcomes for rural Americans are available, and CMS can help us utilize them.

Nearly 14% of Americans live in rural communities. For those of us in health care who work with numbers all day, its important to constantly remind ourselves what these figures represent. Each person who makes up that 14% is a unique individual with a name, a face, a family, and a quality of life that should be better served by the health care system.

It is no secret that some of the greatest disparities in health care today exist for those who live in rural America, where geography, lack of infrastructure, and other social factors all contribute to drastically poorer health outcomes. Its an iniquitous reality underscored by a mortality rate thats 23% higher for people living in rural communities than those who live in urban communities. Individuals in rural communities deserve so much more.

Recently, CMS Rural Health Council released its Improving Health in Rural Communities 2021 report highlighting the multiple agency initiatives over the past year. I applaud CMS for its increased focus on the needs of rural communities and its continued commitment to improving the health and well-being of those who live in rural, frontier, tribal, and geographically isolated areas.

The CMS report outlined a number of important federal programs that have facilitated better access to care for rural Americans in recent years, including:

These initiatives demonstrate incredible progress made in rural care delivery and payment, but more must be done. Namely, we must also expand access to cellular-based remote patient monitoring (RPM) to empower individuals to take action in the management of their chronic conditions. Cellular-based RPM can play a critical role in reducing spending and improving outcomes for people in rural communities who struggle with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions; devices can detect dysrhythmia, for example, and alert providers and plans in real time, giving clinicians ample time to stage a lifesaving intervention.

For many patients, this technology can be the difference between life and death. This makes RPM absolutely essential for people who live in rural communities, where the nearest hospital may be tens of miles away. But despite its massive potential to revolutionize the way we approach preventive care, its minimal usage comes down to reimbursement. Change the payment models, and well incentivize providers to tap RPMs potential with millions of patients in these communities.

We must also do more to meet people where they are. It is a popular turn of phrase within health care and beyond, but I mean it quite literally: We need to broaden the experience of health and care delivery into the day-to-day routines of individuals. We need to bring services into homes and communities, where they are most convenient and accessible. Where do people shop? Where do they socialize? That is where health care must be.

The chain clinic model has achieved success in urban and suburban communities, but we cant count on this approach to work in rural America, where the population is geographically distributed and the nearest neighbormuch less the nearest hospitalmay be tens of miles away. If we want to reach people in rural communities within the routines of their week and begin bridging critical gaps in care, we must adopt hybrid models of care that encompass partnerships with trusted community providers, mobile clinicians, virtual care, and remote patient monitoring devices.

What Im describing is nothing short of a rearchitecting of rural health, but its whats needed to get quality care to the 14% of Americans who simply do not currently have access to it. The tools we need to achieve long-term stability for community providers and ensure better outcomes for rural Americans are available to us. I encourage CMS to help us use them.

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