Medicaid Archives

02.12.2019 wall grafitti-until debt tear us apart

Medicaid Expansion Reduces Financial Worry

Obtaining health insurance through ACA Medicaid expansion helped to reduce people's worries about rent or mortgage payments and buying nutritious meals.

Guest Author Shiho Kino

11.12.2018 a close up of a pink flower

Medicaid’s Remarkable Endurance

Over more than five decades, Medicaid has become the nation’s largest public health program and one of its most indispensable. Its sheer size and budgetary demands represent an ongoing challenge, even as its revenue helps fuel state economies.

Guest Author Sara Rosenbaum

10.19.2018 a screenshot of a survey

A Rural Paradox: The Affordable Care Act or Medicaid?

Why do so many rural Americans who support Medicaid also support repealing the ACA?

Fellow Erin Polka

07.24.2018 Medicaid for Idaho van on a high bridge spanning a river

Medicaid for Idaho?

A group of activists has collected signatures to put Medicaid expansion on the Idaho ballot this November. Idaho is a deeply red state, but they hope expansion will pass on a popular vote.

Guest Author Paula S. Atkeson

Editor David K. Jones

07.20.2018 Graph showing infant mortality rate in African Americans in US by Medicaid Expansion

Infant Mortality and Medicaid Expansion

Average death rates among all infants decreased in states that expanded Medicaid coverage, and increased in states that did not.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

07.12.2018 Avik Roy

Avik Roy: One Republican’s Advice on Health Care

Public Health Post spoke with Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, on health care spending, the problems with Medicaid, and the path to universal coverage.

Fellow Erin Polka

Editor Michael Stein

07.06.2018 Two maps of the US showing Medicaid uninsured rates and expansion states

Medicaid: 2016 Uninsured Rates by County

In states that expanded Medicaid, 23.4% of counties saw a decrease in their estimated uninsured rates, which is substantially larger than the decrease seen in states that did not expand Medicaid eligibility.

Fellow Erin Polka

06.21.2018 Sinkhole on a street with orange cones around it

Obamacare Has Survived, but Health Reform Isn’t Over

The Trump administration is using a variety of executive branch powers to subtly but proactively foment an implosion of the Affordable Care Act.

Editor David K. Jones

05.29.2018 a neon sign on a building

Payday Go Away, Come Again ACA

Medicaid can improve family finances. Payday loans, controversial high-interest short-term borrowing, decreased in counties in California that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Guest Authors Heidi L. Allen, Tal Gross

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