Expanding Medicaid Especially Beneficial for Rural Georgia, Study Finds

In states that expanded Medicaid, the uninsured rate of people living in rural areas of that state dropped at a rate three times that of states that didn’t expand the joint federal-state health insurance program for low income individuals.

To make that a bit easier to digest, take a state like Kentucky. The Bluegrass State expanded Medicaid and saw its rural uninsured population drop from about one in three people to about about one in six.

A state like Georgia, which didn’t expand Medicaid, saw virtually no drop in its rural uninsured—still representing one in three.