Another reason Single_Payer Health Care Can't Wait-Rural Ohio

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Another reason Single_Payer Health Care Can't Wait-Rural Ohio
On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, the Center for Rural Affairs released a policy report entitled - Why Health Care Reform Can't Wait: The Benefits of Health Reform for Rural America - which examines the  health care reform proposals and their potential impact on rural families, businesses and communities as well as the rural consequences of inaction.
Crucial Findings:

Rural Americans stand to obtain greater rates of health insurance coverage and reverse the long-time trend of being more likely to be uninsured than urban residents.
The benefits of health insurance coverage are enormous for all uninsured, but particularly for rural people who receive less preventive care and have higher rates of all chronic diseases.  Fewer rural people will die needlessly simply because they lack health insurance.  And rural communities and the already insured in them will benefit from more people being covered.
Many barriers that prevent rural residents from obtaining health insurance coverage will be removed.  The generally poorer health of rural people will no longer determine whether health insurance is a possibility.
This is just another report stating why the Health Care for All Ohioans Act must be passed in the Buckeye State. Universal health care must reach our rural citizens-they need it!