Assuring Health Coverage for Rural People Through Health Reform

October 29, 2009 Andrew F. Coburn, Ph.D. A. Clinton MacKinney, M.D., M.S. Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D. Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D. Rebecca T. Slifkin, Ph.D. and Erika Ziller, M.S. state that 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. Currently, 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 areas that are . . .