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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIronic fact :"Rural Americans More Likely to Fall into Medicaid Coverage Gap and Lack Insurance
A recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that, compared to Americans who live in cities, rural Americans* are poorer and more likely to have jobs that dont offer health insurance. The analysis, which is based on Census Bureau data, found that rural Americans are more likely to fall into what is called the Medicaid coverage gapthey have been left without affordable health insurance options because their state chose not to expand Medicaid to more low-income people.
Compared to those who live in cities, more rural Americans are poor
About 75 percent of rural Americans have incomes low enough to qualify for financial help for coverage in the health insurance marketplaces. And of those 75 percent, one third have incomes that are even lowerthey fall below the federal poverty level ($19,790 for a family of three in 2014).
By comparison, about 64 percent of urban Americans have incomes that are low enough to get financial help to pay for marketplace coverage, and 21 percent of those have incomes below the federal poverty level.
Compared to those who live in cities, more rural Americans are poor
About 75 percent of rural Americans have incomes low enough to qualify for financial help for coverage in the health insurance marketplaces. And of those 75 percent, one third have incomes that are even lowerthey fall below the federal poverty level ($19,790 for a family of three in 2014).
By comparison, about 64 percent of urban Americans have incomes that are low enough to get financial help to pay for marketplace coverage, and 21 percent of those have incomes below the federal poverty level.
http://familiesusa.org/blog/2014/06/rural-americans-more-likely-fall-medicaid-coverage-gap-and-lack-health-insurance
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Ironic fact :"Rural Americans More Likely to Fall into Medicaid Coverage Gap and Lack Insurance (Original Post)
factfinder_77
Jan 2017
OP
Oops! But at least after Obamacare is repealed, they'll still have the ACA.
Barack_America
Jan 2017
#2
SharonAnn
(13,771 posts)1. but in states like TN didn't accept the Medicaid Supplement, the people
think that "Obamacare" is bad because it's too expensive for them (they don't get the subsidies). So they vote for more Republicans.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)2. Oops! But at least after Obamacare is repealed, they'll still have the ACA.
Oh...wait.
Morons.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)3. great move by Red State republicans
Deprive them of the most popular part of ACA and they will be against it.
I sort of blame us democrats for laughing at them for voting against their own interests rather than staging rallies or engaging the press in those areas to try to make people know what they were missing.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)4. Call Donald.