New Approaches In Medicaid: Work Requirements, Health Savings Accounts, And Health Care Access

• DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0331
• Publication Date: 2018-06-20T19:57:33Z
• Authors: Benjamin D. Sommers; Carrie E. Fry; Robert J. Blendon; Arnold M. Epstein
• Keywords: Adult; Employment; Male; Indiana; 330; Medicaid; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; 1. No poverty; Eligibility Determination; Kansas; Middle Aged; Health Services Accessibility; Insurance Coverage; United States; 3. Good health; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Humans; Female; Poverty; Ohio

States are choosing whether and how to expand eligibility for their Medicaid programs. Coverage rates in 2017 were significantly higher in Ohio, which expanded traditional Medicaid, and Indiana, which expanded through a Section 1115 waiver, than in Kansas, which has not expanded.