Living behind the eight ball: Rural Georgians fight long health care odds

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories looking at the lack of health care in areas of rural Georgia and how providers and lawmakers are dealing with the issue.

Walker County resident Angela Pence’s contractions were three minutes apart when she and husband Dan drove 30 minutes to a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where their daughter was born last December. Five of her nine children, aged 5 months to 13 years, were born in Chattanooga.

“Up here where...