Rural residents are showing little interest in enrolling in federal health reform in states using the federal health insurance exchange,
according to analysis from the
Rural Policy Research Institute. As of October 2015, only 33.9 percent of eligible rural residents in states that expanded Medicaid had signed up for health coverage, compared to 37.3 percent of eligible rural residents in states that refused expansion. In states that expanded Medicaid, 38 percent of metro residents had enrolled, compared to 45.8 percent in states that did not expand Medicaid.
The lowest number was in Iowa—a state that expanded Medicaid—where only 18.3 percent of eligible rural residents had signed up for health coverage. Numbers were also low in South Dakota (21.1 percent), Ohio (21.4), Arizona (22.3), Alaska (23.5), North Dakota (24.4), Arkansas (25.8), Oklahoma (26.4) and Louisiana (29.4). The highest total was in Maine, 63.2 percent, followed by New Hampshire (53 percent), Michigan (52.9) and Wisconsin (50.3).
Some residents are failing to sign up because of confusion about the Affordable Care Act, Craig Shoup
reports for
The News Messenger in northern Ohio.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development State Director Tony Logan told Shoup, "Ohio is the third lowest in rural enrollment in the country. A lot of it is misunderstanding." Logan "said the state is trying to get health care information into rural areas is by educating people on the ease of access to signing up, as well as improved benefits from the 81 plans available."
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