Study: the more rural someone is, the less likely they are to be satisfied with Medicare quality, access, and affordability - Entrepreneur Generations

The more rural someone is, the more likely they are to be dissatisfied with Medicare services, according to a newly published study in The Journal of Rural Health.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota's Rural Health Research Center studied data from the 2016 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which measured respondents' satisfaction with nine different measures related to Medicare quality, access, and/or affordability. The study had more than 10,000 respondents nationwide.

The researchers broke down the answers by population, and in most measures, satisfaction with Medicare decreased with increasing rurality after adjusting for sociodemographic and health characteristics.

"These findings may have implications for access to and quality of care that rural Medicare beneficiaries receive and their subsequent health outcomes," the researchers write. Read more here.

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