Jun
07
U.S. States That Embraced Healthcare Reform Are Seeing Less Debt Sent to Collection Agencies
ByAs long as their state embraced the Medicaid expansion.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Early evidence suggests that the Affordable Care Act is working — at least in one important respect, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Analysts Nicole Dussault, Maxim Pinkovskiy, and Basit Zafar state that the primary purpose of this law “is not to protect our health per se, but to protect our finances.” And they’ve found a big difference between indebtedness trends in states that embraced the Medicaid expansion versus the ones that did not…
U.S. States That Embraced Healthcare Reform Are Seeing Less Debt Sent to Collection Agencies
