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When Ideology Trumps Evidence; Medicaid Under The Affordable Care Act, Amar Reddy
When Ideology Trumps Evidence; Medicaid Under The Affordable Care Act, Amar Reddy
Senior Projects Spring 2017
This year, the newly elected leader of the free world termed healthcare “an unbelievably complex subject”.[1] I seek to make some sense of the topic by examining the primary ways in which the Affordable Care Act has changed the American healthcare system, with a focus on Medicaid expansions. Attention is given to ensuing issues, especially the creation of the Medicaid Gap. I then conduct a cost benefit analysis of expanding Medicaid in Mississippi to levels proposed by the ACA from the perspective of the Mississippi State government. Here, I estimate the cost-per-life-saved if Mississippi were to expand Medicaid, and …