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Category: Access to Care
Medicaid: Equal yet Unequal
Time spent and interventions conducted for Medicaid and private patients are similar; yet outcomes are not. Critics of , particularly state leaders who have chosen not to expand Medicaid, argue that Medicaid provides a lower quality of care through a Continue Reading …
Family planning & Medicaid
Expansion of Medicaid has been one of the most controversial provisions in health reform. With the Supreme Court’s June 2012 ruling that states could opt out of the Medicaid expansion, nearly half the states in the country are leaning towards Continue Reading …
The Math of Medicaid Expansion
The following 2 minute video is excerpted from the RAND Corporation. It explains the effects on states that opt-out of the Medicaid expansion scheduled for 2014.
Cost-shifting: no longer a concern?
A study refutes the theory of cost-shifting in health care and suggests private cost growth mirrors Medicare. Increasing costs of health care in the United States have been longstanding concerns. Several solutions have been proposed to address this issue; one Continue Reading …
Will primary care fail us?
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is set to take place in just over half of the states. Additional private insurance expansions using health insurance exchanges are set to take place in the next 100 days. However, providing health insurance Continue Reading …
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