Cut Medicaid--Increase Health Disparities: How Cuts to "Optional" Beneficiaries Will Affect Minority Health


 

Publication Date: February 2005

Publisher: Families USA

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Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

An exploration of the lack of true distinction between mandatory and so-called "optional" enrollees. This brief also analyzes how proposed Medicaid cuts that target "optional" enrollees will exacerbate health disparities.