Increased Service Use Following Medicaid Expansion Is Mostly Temporary: Evidence from California’s Low Income Health Program
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This policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research addresses concerns about increasing costs to state budgets as a result of Medicaid expansion, presenting data that show the recent increases in hospital and emergency-room usage are temporary and unlikely to have the catastrophic impact some predicted for state budgets.