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Trends in health insurance and health care access in rural Washington
Technical Bulletin (Washington State University. Extension), 30, Washington State University Extension
08/2016
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/6378
Abstract
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased the share of the population with health coverage through a number of strategies, including Medicaid expansion, the enactment of state-run health care exchanges, and penalties for not obtaining coverage. This publication summarizes findings related to health coverage and health care use in a select number of rural census tracts in five central Washington counties. The most dramatic finding is that the health insurance rate in rural Yakima County increased from 40.43% in 2012–2014 to 89.36% in 2015, compared to an average increase in rate of insurance from 77.19% to 91.09% in the rural areas of the other four counties in our sample. Moreover, 42% of the currently insured individuals in rural Yakima County are Medicaid enrollees compared to 9% in the overall sample. Among the current Medicaid enrollees, about half were uninsured before. Based on findings from other studies, this is likely to cause a sizeable increase in the demand for health services, especially emergency room (ER) visits.
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- Title
- Trends in health insurance and health care access in rural Washington
- Creators
- Bidisha Mandal (Author)Michael Brady (Author)R. Karina Gallardo (Author)
- Academic Unit
- Publications, WSU Extension
- Series
- Technical Bulletin (Washington State University. Extension); 30
- Publisher
- Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900501012301842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report