Medicaid Archives

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

05.09.2018 a graph with numbers and a line

Health Insurance Disparities Persist after ACA

Although the percentage of those without insurance has decreased under the ACA, Black Americans are still more likely to be uninsured than White Americans.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

05.08.2018 A toy elephant's bottom and a donkey's bottom as they leave the picture

Health Equity
Policy

Why Not Single Payer Now?

Democrats and moderates spent the last decade building support for, developing, and then defending the Affordable Care Act. A resurgent progressive interest in single payer health care would abandon it.

Guest Author Jon Kingsdale

03.15.2018 A black and white photo of a mop

The Undeserving

Qing Wai Wong questions the assumptions behind Medicaid work requirements policy, that everyone could pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Medicaid enrollees in states that have yet to expand Medicaid will face a unique challenge.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

02.12.2018 Hands showing dirt from manual labor

A History of Work Requirements

Nine states have pending waiver requests that would require work as a condition for receiving Medicaid benefits. Work requirements are not a new policy idea. Politicians, especially conservatives, have been proposing the addition of work requirements to every existing type of public benefit program for decades.

Guest Author Allyson Baughman

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