2022 Rural Voter Poll Results

Morning Consult ran a poll among 1,004 rural voters, on behalf of National Grange focusing on barriers to care and participation in mental health care. Mental health care is an issue for rural voters and the survey identifies several unique obstacles to mental health care, including cost, accessibility, and awareness of help or treatment. The survey also finds that rural voters feel their health care concerns are not being addressed by Congress and that their health care priorities focus on lowering out-of-pocket costs and the overall cost of coverage. The survey also finds that rural voters support solutions to address barriers to health care such as increasing transparency, making sure vulnerable communities have access to health care and can afford it, requiring rebates to patients at the pharmacy counter, and capping the cost-sharing that patients must pay out-of-pocket. Finally, rural voters support community programs to raise awareness for community-based mental health programs.