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If you lack health insurance, you're more likely to live in a rural area. Put another way, if you're rural, you're more likely to lack health insurance. Nearly one in five uninsured Americans live in rural areas, while only a sixth of the U.S. population does. For those reasons, the federal health-reform law is especially important to rural areas, but "In the launch of health insurance exchanges across the country, one issue that has not been explored much is how the marketplaces will affect rural Americans," says the Association of Health Care Journalists. So, AHCJ is holding a webcast at 2 p.m. ET Thursday to explore how rural Americans will use the health-insurance exchanges that opened Oct. 1.
The panelists will be Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, which publishes Kentucky Health News and The Rural Blog; Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association; and Jim Doyle, who covers the business of health care for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. AHCJ health-insurance topic leader Joseph Burns will serve as moderator.
Viewers of the one-hour webcast will be able to ask questions after the panelists' initial presentations. Registration is not required for the free webcast; a link to it will appear on this AHCJ web page shortly before the webcast begins.
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Free webcast for journalists TODAY at 2 p.m. ET will explore rural use of health-insurance exchanges
The panelists will be Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, which publishes Kentucky Health News and The Rural Blog; Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association; and Jim Doyle, who covers the business of health care for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. AHCJ health-insurance topic leader Joseph Burns will serve as moderator.
Viewers of the one-hour webcast will be able to ask questions after the panelists' initial presentations. Registration is not required for the free webcast; a link to it will appear on this AHCJ web page shortly before the webcast begins.
- National Rural Health Day Is Thursday, Nov. 20
The Kentucky Rural Health Association will participate in National Rural Health Day, held on the third Thursday in each November, to spread awareness of rural health-related issues and promote the efforts of all rural stakeholders, says a press release...
- Older Rural Residents Are More Likely To Seek Care At Rural Hospitals, National Study Finds
Rural hospitals are more likely to serve older patients seeking hospitalization, while younger rural residents seek medical care in urban areas, says a study by the National Center for Health Statistics at the federal Centers for Disease Control....
- National Rural Health Day To Be Celebrated Nov. 15 With Free Week-long Issue-based Webinar Series
Those almost 60 million Americans who live in rural America do not have as much ready access to health care or to the vast number of health care providers than those who live in more urbanized America. Rural Americans are more likely to arrive on the...
- State Insurance Exchanges Are Good For Farmers And Other Rural Residents, Farmers Union President Writes
Farmers and rural Americans have much to gain from state health-insurance exchanges under federal health reform, since "Rural residents often have the hardest time getting health insurance," the president of the Wisconsin Farmers Union argues...
- Rural Children Face More Health Risks; Most Parents Say Their Kids Are Healthy
Children in rural areas face more health challenges than those in urban parts of the country, and are more likely to be poor, more vulnerable to death from injuries, and more likely to use tobacco. Rural families also have more difficulty in gaining access...