The New York Times

By: Thomas B. Edsall

More than a third of Americans believe that Medicaid is akin to welfare, with the implicit subtext that racial and ethnic minorities are the principal beneficiaries.

If that’s what they think, they’re dead wrong.

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Along similar lines, Medicaid provides benefits to significantly higher percentages of children in rural and small-town America, where Trump and Republicans generally won by their strongest margins. A recent Georgetown University study found that

In 2014-2015, Medicaid provided health coverage for 45 percent of children and 16 percent of adults in small towns and rural areas, compared to 38 percent and 15 percent, respectively, in metropolitan areas.

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