Report
Assuring Health Coverage for Rural People through Health Reform
Policy File
Rural Policy Research Institute / The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
10/30/2009
Abstract
Rural residents of the United States have a higher uninsured rate than their urban counterparts, and therefore have the most to gain from efforts to reform the U.S. health care system. The differences in health insurance status between those living in rural and urban areas are important to consider in the debate over national reform. This report suggests that the challenges that rural people face in obtaining health insurance are partly due to the structure of the rural economy: 64 percent of adults working in rural are employed in jobs where health insurance is provided, compared to 71 percent of their urban counterparts. At the same time, rural workers are far more likely to be self-employed. Rural businesses also pay higher premium costs than urban businesses for similar health insurance plans.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assuring Health Coverage for Rural People through Health Reform
- Creators
- Andrew F CoburnA Clinton MacKinneyTimothy D McBrideKeith J MuellerRebecca T SlifkinErika Ziller
- Resource Type
- Report
- Publication Details
- Policy File
- Publisher
- Rural Policy Research Institute / The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Number of pages
- 12 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © the authors
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/30/2009
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984214711902771
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