Effect Of Medicaid’s Expansion On Spending For Low-Income Families

An Issue Brief from The Commonwealth Fund assesses how the Medicaid expansion affected out-of-pocket health care spending for low-income families compared to those in states that did not expand and considers whether effects differed in states that expanded under conventional Medicaid rules vs. waiver programs.

The Issue Brief can be obtained at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/issue-brief/2017/aug/glied_medicaid_expansion_oop_ib.pdf.