Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News

Access to information in languages other than English is protected by various policies. But researchers say that as rural America grows more diverse, people not proficient in the language face added barriers.

Although tribal adults are enrolled in Medicaid at higher rates than their white counterparts, many leaders feel they’ve been left in the dark as states roll through the tumultuous process.

Experts say the lack of help available to rural Americans in navigating insurance options puts them at greater risk of losing health coverage than people in metropolitan areas.

Five years after HIV tore through a rural Indiana town as a result of widespread drug use, a syringe and needle exchange program was set up in rural Nevada to prevent a similar event.