Providing Optimal Care to Medicaid Patients Under the Affordable Care Act
Despite the increase in coverage under the ACA, data suggest Medicaid patients often had increased wait times for appointments to see healthcare providers.
Despite the increase in coverage under the ACA, data suggest Medicaid patients often had increased wait times for appointments to see healthcare providers.
However, support for the law depends on political affiliation.
State budget projections were accurate for federal, state, and Medicaid spending.
President Trump’s executive order would likely lead to dropped coverage and increased premiums — which would conflict with the goals of the ACA — its provisions would be difficult to implement.
Counties exposed to higher volumes of local insurance ads had a larger drop in uninsurance.
“We found that PCPs strongly endorse key elements of the ACA that enable individuals to obtain insurance coverage and that very few support repealing the law.”
Research shows the benefits, but there were also more problems with patients getting appointments.
“Health-care reform isn’t about a nameless, faceless ‘system,'” the former president wrote. “It’s about the millions of lives at stake.”
States with Medicaid expansion have substantially improved access to care, affordability, chronic-disease management and self-reported health.
An initial Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act was formally introduced on Monday.