Number of Rural Uninsured Grows in Recession

The percentage of people without health insurance was fairly equal in rural, exurban and urban counties in 2005. But after the recession, the rate of people in rural communities without coverage jumped over 8 percent; now the percentage of people without health insurance in rural America is higher than it is in urban counties.


The number of rural residents without health insurance jumped between 2005 and 2010. The increase was large enough that there is now a higher percentage of people under the age of 65 without health insurance in rural American than in either the cities or the suburbs.


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