Medicaid expansion brought across-the-board relief for Michigan hospitals
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 09:31
in Health & Medicine
It happened fast. It happened in nearly every hospital in the state. And it didn't come with dreaded side effects. The proportion of hospitalized patients who lacked insurance dropped by nearly four percentage points, and the proportion covered by Medicaid rose more than six points, in the state of Michigan within three months of the expansion of Medicaid.