Medicaid Expansion's Final Frontier: Breaking State-Level Partisan Opposition

Patrick N O'Mahen; Laura A Petersen

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.17700

Medicaid Expansion's Final Frontier: Breaking State-Level Partisan Opposition

JAMA. 2023 Oct 3;330(13):1227-1228. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.17700.

Authors

Patrick N O'Mahen^{1

2}, Laura A Petersen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
² Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

PMID: 37713181
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.17700

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the reasons why Medicaid has not been expanded in all US states and explains how expansion might finally be achieved in the 10 holdout states.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Dissent and Disputes
Health Services Accessibility
Insurance Coverage*
Medicaid*
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act*
Politics*
State Government*
United States