Opinion: Medicaid Expansion, Innovation Can Boost Health
In a San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece, Peter Long -- president and CEO of the Blue Shield of California Foundation -- writes that federal incentives provided to help states expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and "investments by the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation" have "the potential to improve the health of the previously uninsured." He adds that the funds "also will greatly reduce the amount of uncompensated care provided by hospitals, physicians and community health centers."
- "Medicaid Expansion Can Lift Health Care" (Long, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/10).