- Current Medicaid patients miss out on better preventive care, By Christine Vestal, July 8, 2013, Stateline: “A hallmark of President Obama’s health law is that it requires insurers to cover early detection and disease prevention services at no cost to the patient. The new preventive care guidelines are intended to improve overall health, reduce the number of preventable deaths and lower costs. But some of the nation’s unhealthiest people — 25 million low-income adults who already qualify for Medicaid — aren’t likely to receive those benefits, because the requirements in the Affordable Care Act pertain only to private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid expansion programs…”
- Medicaid coverage gap looms, By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar (AP), July 2, 2013, Columbus Dispatch: “Nearly 2 in 3 uninsured poor people who would qualify for subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama’s health-care law may be out of luck next year because their states have not expanded Medicaid. An Associated Press analysis of figures from the Urban Institute finds a big coverage gap developing, with 9.7 million out of 15 million potentially eligible adults living in states that are refusing the expansion or are still undecided with time running short. Ohio is in the latter group…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty