Health Insurance Survey of Farm and Ranch Operators

Publications

• How Farmers and Ranchers Get Health Insurance and What They Spend for Health Care, Pryor, C., Prottas, J., Lottero, B., Rukavina, M., & Knudson, A., Issue Brief No. 2, December 2007
  “How Farmers and Ranchers Get Health Insurance and What They Spend for Health Care,” is the second in a series of issue briefs based on a survey of farm and ranch operators in seven Great Plains states. The report examines how farm and ranch operators get health insurance coverage and the amount of their overall healthcare costs including insurance premiums and money spent out-of-pocket for medical services, treatments, products or prescription drugs. It highlights the inadequacies of relying on the private, non-group market to provide affordable, comprehensive insurance coverage to farm and ranch operators.
• Overview of Findings, Lottero, B., Pryor, C., Rukavina, M., Prottas, J., & Knudson, A., Issue Brief No. 1, September 2007
  This first in a series of briefs based on a survey of farm and ranch operators in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, provides information on insurance status, source of health insurance, health care access, and medical debt for these families. It urges policymakers to carefully consider proposals that will ease the burden of health care costs for rural residents and small business operators.