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Category: Access to Care
Medicaid expands for adults
As of January 1st, the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid eligibility requirements to include adults living at or below 138% of the federal poverty level (about $15,000 per year for an individual). However, several state and local governments, including California, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Washington D.C., took advantage of Continue Reading …
Medicaid is not a welfare magnet
A recent study generated by two Harvard scholars and published in Health Affairs concludes that law-maker anxiety regarding the “welfare magnet” hypothesis—which projects that states which expand their Medicaid programs will open themselves to an undesirable influx of poor Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2014
Regardless of what you think about the Affordable Care Act, and regardless of whether or not you are hoping for its ultimate failure or success, even under optimal conditions, it will fall far short of the goal the Institute of Medicine Continue Reading …
Medicaid Increases ER Visits
This Policy Prescriptions® review is written by Dr. Seth Trueger. He blogs at MDAware.org and can also be found via Twitter @MDAware or tweeting for Emergency Physicians Monthly @epmonthly. In 2008, Oregon had some limited funding to expand their Medicaid program. Given the limited funding, they held Continue Reading …
Winning the Health Care Lottery
Yesterday, another installment was published from the research team of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. The major finding – Medicaid coverage results in a 40% increase in emergency department (ER) use. Many of the health care pundits quickly sifted through Continue Reading …
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