Mitigating disparities in vaccine distribution requires attention to key priorities, including collecting and monitoring high-quality race and ethnicity data, increasing vaccine availability in hard-hit communities, and addressing vaccine hesitancy among populations at high risk of exposure to COVID-19.
This brief shares findings from structured discussions with primary care practices of varying sizes and geographies to assess the impact the pandemic has had on their practices, both from an operational and financial standpoint.
If the 14 states that had not expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2020 had done so, the number of uninsured people would have dropped by 4.4 million in the last three quarters of the year, 600,000 more people than we estimated absent the pandemic.
Nearly half of all adults uninsured in September 2020 had neither looked for information on Marketplace coverage nor tried to obtain Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage. This brief explains why.
The chilling effects on public program participation experienced by immigrant families in 2020 are alarming in the context of the pandemic, during which people of color, many of whom are part of immigrant families, have disproportionately experienced economic and health-related hardships.
With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place, fewer older adults remain uninsured, and analyses find buy-in policies have limited potential to expand coverage further.
Low Medicaid physician fees have important implications for Medicaid enrollees’ access to care and the costs and effects of proposals to expand coverage through a Medicaid buy-in program or a Medicaid-like public option.
