The Evidence Builds: Access to Medicaid Helps People Work

From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/):

March 2017 | Jessica Gehr and Suzanne Wikle

Untreated illness can make it hard to work. Health insurance is a key work support and tool that provides working-age adults with access to care that helps them get and keep a job. A recent in-depth report provides compelling new information from Ohio about the ability of Medicaid expansion enrollees to seek and maintain employment.1 This report adds to the growing body of research confirming the benefits of Medicaid expansion. 2

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states were incentivized to expand Medicaid to provide affordable health insurance to people with incomes below 138 percent of poverty ($16,400 for a single person). A geographically diverse mix of 32 red and blue states took advantage of the ACA’s provision to expand Medicaid. As a result, millions of low-income adults in those states now have access to affordable care, resulting in better health, greater financial, physical, and mental stability, and fewer deaths.

Read more at http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/The-Evidence-Builds-Access-to-Medicaid-Helps-People-Work.pdf.