Medicaid Overhaul Faces Tough Test In Trump Country

Politico Pro

By: Rachana Pradhan

The Trump administration’s planned overhaul of Medicaid is running into the unforgiving reality of impoverished small towns like this one, which voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump.

In Magoffin County, where a third of residents live in poverty, the uninsured rate among adults dropped from 32 percent to 12 percent between 2008 and 2015, according to one estimate.

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