Fifteen million people with Medicaid are expected to lose coverage after the Public Health Emergency ends. Therefore, patient outreach is a must, according to experts.
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The ugly reflection America sees when it looks in the racial mirror glowers back even from the nobly intended Medicaid program. The federal-state health plan for the poor is infected by a “subversive racism,” says an analysis cowritten by BU’s Paul Shafer in a recent
Shafer, a School of Public Health assistant professor of health law, policy, and management, and coauthor Nambi Ndugga of the Kaiser Family Foundation found a not-coincidental commonality among the dozen states that rejected generous federal subsidies to expand Medicaid. “The percentage of likely eligible Black residents was 10 points higher in states that chose not to expand their Medicaid programs than in states that did,” the article notes.