A Medicaid Overview – Q&A with Kaiser Family Foundation

With contributions from Samantha Artiga, Director, Disparities Policy Project The Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on national health issues through policy analysis, journalism, and communications. KFF serves as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis, and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community, and the public. Let’s start with a high-level overview of Medicaid – its…

Affordability & Access to Care in 2018: Examining Racial & Educational Inequities Across the United States – SHADAC

The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) put together this illustrative infographic on the pervasive racial and educational inequities in our healthcare system with a focus on access to a personal doctor and foregone medical care due to cost. In 2019, 25% of Americans said they or a family member delayed necessary medical care…

How Health Insurance Improves Financial Health – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has been exploring the personal financial impact of the ACA since its passage. Part of their ongoing research explores the bill’s impact in expansion states and non-expansion states. This summary provides an overview of ways that Medicaid expansion improved the financial health of low-income Americans.