Impacts Of The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion On Insurance Coverage & Access To Care

On June 20, 2016, the federal Department of Health and Human Services released this issue brief regarding the impacts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act'’s (PPACA) Medicaid expansion. This issue brief provides a literature review of the effects of Medicaid expansion, with a focus on the impacts of the ACA'’s Medicaid expansion in 2014 and 2015. Specifically, the brief focuses on the effects of expansion on health coverage and access, affordability, and quality of care . . .