Medicaid expansion would have helped 18,400 mentally ill Louisianians in 2014, study says, By Rebecca Catalanello, New Orleans Times-Picayune: “More than 18,400 uninsured Louisianians diagnosed with mental health conditions were denied access to affordable mental health treatment last year — care that would have been available to them if the state’s leaders expanded Medicaid as allowed by federal law, a new study shows. The American Mental Health Counselors Association examined the impact of Medicaid expansion on the mentally ill in the United States and found that more than a half-million uninsured adults were diagnosed with a serious mental health at the beginning of 2014, but did not get treated because they lived in the 24 states that did not expand Medicaid as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act allows…”
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