What Louisiana Tells Us About the ACA Medicaid Expansion.

MEDICAID; HEALTH services accessibility; MEDICALLY uninsured persons; GOVERNMENT aid; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; PATIENT Protection & Affordable Care Act; HEALTH & social status

The author illustrates the expansion of Medicaid in Louisiana under the provision of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Topics discussed include implementation of expansion by governor John Bel Edwards on January 12, 2016; reduction in budget deficit with federal Medicaid expansion money; involvement of Medicaid expansion with political campaigns in Louisiana and association of coverage for health insurance under Medicaid expansion related to healthy outcomes.