EDITORIAL: Maine’s voters say they want to help low-income residents. LePage still won’t budge.
Medicaid is an antipoverty program. A study in the journal Health Affairs evaluates public health insurance programs for the role they play in fighting poverty. that public health insurance programs such as Medicaid were responsible for a third of the overall poverty reduction for which public benefit programs are responsible.
The only poverty relief available for one of the main populations specifically helped by Medicaid expansion, low-income adults without children, came from Medicaid. That's poverty relief
Medicaid expansion helps people in rural areas. An expansion of Medicaid is also bound to help a population especially prevalent in
Another recent study, this one published , found that in the more than 30 states that have already expanded Medicaid, the benefits were . As the researchers put it, "Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act increased the probability of Medicaid coverage for targeted populations in rural and urban areas, with a significantly greater increase in rural areas."
It's as if Medicaid expansion is a policy tailor-made for
In a state that hasn't seen the reductions in poverty and hunger the rest of the country has seen in recent years, Medicaid expansion is a policy that can help. A low-income resident with health problems who can't afford another source of health coverage will no longer have to worry about going broke to receive health care once the expansion is implemented.
In a state that hasn't seen the same size reduction in its population lacking health insurance as the rest of the country, Medicaid expansion will also help.
But even though
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