The Rural Policy Research Institute recently released a report entitled “Assuring Health Coverage for Rural People,” which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Health Reform brief suggests that 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 are employed in jobs where health insurance is provided, compared to 71 percent of their urban counterparts. At the same time, rural workers are far more likely to be self-employed. Rural businesses also pay higher premium costs than urban businesses for similar health insurance plans.

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