In their ahead-of-print article published earlier this week, Hannah Shadowen and coauthors analyze results from the Medicaid Expansion New Member Survey, for which the follow-up survey period overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their findings offer insights on the impact of public health insurance in a time of economic and public health crisis.

They find that Medicaid enrollment was significantly associated with decreases in reporting nonmedical financial needs and decreases in concern about medical costs and medical debts.

Shadowen and coauthors report 5.0 and 7.7 percentage-point decreases in the likelihood of respondents being concerned about paying for housing costs and food, respectively, after twelve months of enrollment compared with the year before enrollment.

Further, the likelihood of being concerned about the cost of normal health care and the cost of catastrophic health care decreased by 33.7 percentage points and 23.8 percentage points, respectively.

This week in Health Affairs Forefront, Katie Keith summarizes much of the newest federal guidance and activity that relates to preserving access to reproductive services following last month's Supreme Court decision on Dobbs.

Relatedly, we hosted a Lunch and Learn event earlier this month for Health Affairs Insiders examining the Supreme Court's most recent term.

Additional articles published on Forefront this week cover topics like mental health workforce, marketplace deductibles, and incentives for drug research and development.

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In an episode of This Week, Health Affairs' Kathleen Haddad and Ellen Bayer discuss the new hotline and mental health initiatives in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

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