Expanding Coverage and Ensuring Access: The Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing Health Reform in Rural America

This project will identify and examine rural implementation issues, challenges, and potential policy and other strategies in two main areas of the PPACA:(1) health system financing and delivery system reform and (2) insurance coverage expansions. The project will examine and highlight the important differences in how financing and delivery system innovations and insurance reform provisions are likely to work in rural versus urban populations/firms/areas.  Researchers will also evaluate how state policy and/or other strategies could be used to achieve more effective rural implementation.

Publications

CO-OP Health Plans: Can They Help Fix Rural America's Health Insurance Markets?
(June 2011, Issue Brief)