Although Medicaid prescriptions for naloxone increased between 2010 and 2018, without new federal policies regulating prices or promoting robust price competition, Medicaid enrollees’ naloxone options will likely remain limited, potentially worsening the overdose crisis.
This brief describes needs, emerging strategies, and new opportunities in the immigrant-serving field and identifies key policy and research priorities for advancing an immigrant-inclusive agenda.
Using the Urban Institute’s Medicare policy microsimulation model, MCARE-SIM, researchers describe the set of available estimates for Medicare enrollment and spending, the targets chosen among these benchmarks, and the methods used to calibrate the MCARE-SIM model to match selected targets.
We estimate that the COVID-19 recession has increased the number of uninsured New Mexicans relative to a year ago. But New Mexico has several policy options that could reduce the number of uninsured residents and improve the affordability of existing coverage for many more.
