A range of health reform strategies can increase coverage and improve affordability, and different approaches can even achieve universal health insurance coverage. What are the trade-offs for households, employers, and governments?
This brief looks at variation across states in prescription rates for buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT) from 2011 to 2018. Prescription estimates per Medicaid enrollee show that many states’ Medicaid programs have per enrollee BMT rates that may be falling short of underlying needs.
More than 200 women in California, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, and Texas—states that represent a range of family-planning provider and policy landscapes—shared their perspectives on birth control and explained the factors that influence their contraceptive choices.
We find that 13.7 percent of adults in immigrant families reported that they or a family member avoided noncash public benefits in 2018 for fear of risking future green card status. Among adults in low-income families earning less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, this rate was 20.7 percent.
Compared with privately insured adults, Medicaid enrollees who would potentially be subject to work requirements are more likely to face employment barriers, including low educational attainment, health problems, limited transportation and internet access, criminal records, and residence in high-unemployment or high-poverty neighborhoods.
