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Category: Access to Care
Medicaid Expansion cuts Hospital Closures
Hospital closures can adversely impact patient outcomes, particularly for time-sensitive conditions, and hospitals with poor financial performance are more likely to close. Prior evidence has demonstrated the positive effect of Medicaid expansion on hospital financial outcomes because Medicaid revenue from Continue Reading …
Insurance Overstates Actual Value
Do marketplace plans adequately communicate their ability to cover consumers? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed plans to have coverage across multiple tiers: bronze plans must have an actuarial value of 60%, silver 70%, gold 80%, and platinum 90%. Considered Continue Reading …
Seize the Day: Expand Medicaid
Infant mortality is a common metric for grading healthcare systems internationally. By that standard, the United States is far from the top of the class, with an abnormally high infant mortality rate for its level of development. While there are Continue Reading …
Will Medicaid Expansion Halt Smoking?
The Supreme Court’s decision to make the expansion of Medicaid optional for states has led to several natural experiments of the effect of providing Medicaid coverage. One such experiment explored how the expansion of Medicaid coverage impacted smoking cessation rates. Continue Reading …
Narrow Networks: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established health insurance marketplaces in which insurers offered both broad and narrow network plans in order to provide a variety of options for beneficiaries. Narrow network plans provided lower premiums and allowed for better care Continue Reading …
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