When patients seek medical care from their primary care provider, they may not consider the 6-week wait time until their appointment. Across the United States, policymakers are concerned that the supply of physicians is not enough to meet the nationwide demand for care. Many regions do not have enough primary care providers to meet the… Read more »
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Expanding Medicaid’s Mental Health Care: State Waivers Appear to Have Different Effects
State waivers aimed at expanding mental health care for Medicaid beneficiaries have been largely successful in doing so. However, my research finds that state waivers aimed at removing the Institutions for Mental Diseases Exclusion appear to have different effects by state. Mental illnesses are more prevalent among Medicaid enrollees, so it is important that Medicaid… Read more »
Hospitals Do Not Reduce the Dollar Amount of Uncompensated Care They Provide Upon Joining Health Systems
Every year, hundreds of diabetic patients in the United States die because they were not able to afford their daily shots of life-sustaining insulin and chose to, out of sheer desperation, ration their insulin prescription so that it lasted for as many days as they could stretch it. For such individuals, uncompensated care that hospitals… Read more »