July 16, 2021 | health care financing, Medicaid
Eric Seiber, Director of the Center for HOPES and Professor in the College of Public Health, is quoted in a story about how the Biden administration is attempting to close the “coverage gap” between Medicaid and subsidized private health coverage.
More than 2 million low-income Americans fall in the coverage gap. According to analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 60% of them are people of color, a third are primary caregivers, and 62% of them are in the workforce, including 23% who work in essential or frontline jobs. Nonetheless, because they live in states that turned down expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act, they are not eligible for either health coverage through the joint state-federal program or for federal subsidies on marketplace plans.
Read the full article: How Medicaid is Changing and Expanding Under President Biden (Healthline, 7/6/21)