Rural Enrollment in Health Insurance Marketplaces, by State

Date
10/2015
Description

In this brief, we provide comparisons between cumulative enrollment totals in Health Insurance Marketplaces in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of each state and corresponding percentages of "potential market" participants enrolled, controlling for Medicaid expansion status. We show that in several states, non-metropolitan enrollment rates exceed metropolitan enrollment rates, a finding that is obscured in an aggregate comparison. This analysis provides some indication of how well outreach and enrollment efforts targeting rural populations are proceeding in the states.

Center
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Authors
Abigail Barker, Timothy McBride, Leah Kemper, Keith Mueller