Everyone—regardless of race, class, or zip code—deserves to have health care coverage. Everyone.

Yet, there are still 10 states that have refused to expand Medicaid to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act, leaving 1.6 million people in a Medicaid “gap” and uninsured.

Quick signature: Tell Congress to close the Medicaid gap!

What’s happening? Despite making historic gains in health care coverage in recent years, there are still some who have been left behind: people of color and rural Americans. We now have over a decade of data showing that Medicaid expansion lowers the uninsured rate, reduces mortality rates, helps rural hospitals stay open, and decreases racial health disparities for Black and Hispanic adults.

Medicaid expansion is crucial to ensure families, particularly people of color and people in rural America, have access to high quality health care. In fact, the rural uninsured rate is nearly twice as high in non-expansion states as in expansion states. In addition, fully 65% of uninsured adults in non-expansion states are people of color. So, closing the unfair coverage gap important for both reducing racial health disparities and reducing the uninsured rate in rural communities. In fact, infant mortality rates fell 50 percent more in expansion states than in non-expansion states between 2010 and 2016, while also decreasing racial disparities in infant mortality.

Add your name! Tell Congress to lower the uninsured rate and address racial health disparities in states that have not expanded Medicaid.

When you click, you’ll be able to sign our petition that reads:

Dear Congress,

Everyone, regardless of race, class, or zip code, deserves to have health care coverage. Despite making historic gains in health care coverage in recent years, there are still some who have been left behind: rural Americans and people of color.

Closing the Medicaid coverage gap will help to decrease the uninsured rate for rural Americans and address persistent racial inequities in health care and health outcomes, including in maternal and infant health. In fact, infant mortality rates fell 50 percent more in expansion states than in non-expansion states between 2010 and 2016, while also decreasing racial disparities in infant mortality.

Medicaid expansion is crucial to ensure people in rural America have access to high quality health care. The rural uninsured rate is nearly twice as high in non-expansion states as in expansion states and 65% of uninsured adults in these states are people of color. Closing the unfair coverage gap is not only important for decreasing the uninsured rate in rural communities, but also for decreasing racial health disparities.

This is a critical moment to step up and advance health equity for rural Americans and people of color. Please support a federal solution for closing the Medicaid coverage gap.

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