BenefitsPRO February 24, 2021
AHIP offers its recommendation for Medicaid to help advance health equity for the disadvantaged.
Policymakers have long wrestled with how to provide greater access to essential health care for disadvantaged Americans. Expanding and revising Medicaid may be part of the solution, according to a new report from America’s Health Insurance Plans.
“As the federal-state program providing access to essential health care to over 77 million low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities, Medicaid has a unique opportunity to address the social risk factors that disproportionately impact these vulnerable populations,” the report said.
These socioeconomic barriers or social determinants of health include inadequate access to nutritious food, lack of affordable housing, lack of convenient and efficient transportation...
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