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By: Suzanne Potter

The uninsured rate for low-income adults has plunged 22 points in rural areas of Michigan since the state expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act – dropping from 38 percent to 16 percent, according to a new report. Researchers at Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina found that the uninsured rate dropped in the state’s urban areas as well, to 13 percent.

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Joan Alker, report co-author and executive director at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said the ACA made an even bigger impact nationally. “The major finding is that states that expanded Medicaid saw more than three times the rate of decline in the uninsured adult population in rural areas and small towns than those states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act,” Alker said.

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