Ironic fact :"Rural Americans More Likely to Fall into Medicaid Coverage Gap and Lack Insurance [View all]
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 don’t 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 gap”—they 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 lower—they 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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