An estimated 1.1 million village health core patients are left but a advantages of health coverage simply since they live in one of 24 states that have opted out of a Medicaid expansion, a pivotal partial of a Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new report.
The research, by a Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative during Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) during a George Washington University also shows that a immeasurable infancy (71 percent) of a 1.1 million patients left behind live in only 11 southern states (AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA).
“These low-income patients, many of them vital in a South, already face poignant hurdles to receiving health care,” says lead author Peter Shin, PhD, MPH, executive of a Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy and an associate highbrow of health process during Milken Institute SPH. “Our research suggests these patients will sojourn but entrance to affordable insurance, that will roughly positively lead to delays in caring and a risk of some-more critical health conditions.”
The new news updates progressing estimates to simulate health core expansion between 2011 and 2012 as
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