GOP Medicaid Cuts Hit Rural America Hardest, Report Finds [KHN.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/8/174:00 AM

Rural America carried President Donald Trump to his election night upset last November.

Trump Country it may be, but rural counties and small towns also make up Medicaid Country — those parts of the nation whose low-income children and families are most dependent on the federal-state health insurance program, according to a report released Wednesday.

Medicaid’s enrollment has swollen to more than 72 million in recent years, and the ranks of uninsured Americans has fallen to 9 percent in 2015 from 13 percent in 2013. That’s largely due to the Affordable Care Act, which allowed states to expand Medicaid eligibility with federal funds. Thirty-one states plus the District of Columbia did so.

[For more of this story, written by Phil Galewitz, go to http://khn.org/news/gop-medica...ardest-report-finds/]

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