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By: Jeff Cohen

The rate of people without health insurance in rural Connecticut has gone down dramatically since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. That’s the takeaway message from a new report on health insurance out of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. Edwin Park, a research professor at the center, said the key to the drop is the state’s expansion of Medicaid to include more people. “The uninsured rate for those in rural areas and small towns declined three times faster in expansion states like the state of Connecticut than in non-expansion states,” he said.

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