The ACA Medicaid Expansion Waiver in the Keystone State: Do the Medically Uninsured 'Got a Friend in Pennsylvania'?
Medicaid is fundamental to near universal health insurance coverage under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Its goal of broadening the program to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level was thwarted in 2012 by a Supreme Court decision that allowed the states...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 599 - 612 |
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Duke University Press
Jun2015
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