Health Affairs November 15, 2019
In a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on October 23, 2019, Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testified that new data show significant problems with Medicaid eligibility. This is not surprising; in a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper issued in August, my academic colleagues and I used microdata from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) from 2012 to 2017 to examine eligibility of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expansion of Medicaid. We found evidence of substantial improper Medicaid enrollment following the expansion.
Recent postings by Tricia Brooks and by Judith Solomon and Matt Broaddus have criticized both these findings and a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed I...
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