Clash of the Titans: Medicaid Meets Private Health Insurance

Authors

Sara J. Rosenbaum, George Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2015

Journal

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics

Volume

15

Issue

1

Inclusive Pages

11

Abstract

Throughout its first forty-eight years of life, the federal Medicaid statute lacked a viable insurance pathway for most low-income adults' ineligible for employer-sponsored coverage. In what is arguably the most important public health achievement since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid fifty years ago, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) fundamentally alters this picture. Building on earlier breakthroughs for children, the ACA restructures Medicaid to cover poor adults and juxtaposes its new architecture against an affordable and accessible private insurance market for people ineligible for employer-sponsored or government insurance.

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APA Citation

Rosenbaum, S. J. (2015). Clash of the Titans: Medicaid Meets Private Health Insurance. Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, 15 (1). Retrieved from https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/sphhs_policy_facpubs/776

Peer Reviewed

1

Open Access

1