March, 2014
Only about 5.5% of the currently uninsured who are eligible for Medicaid under expansion report having seen a mental health professional in the last year. However, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, over 60% of adults with a diagnosable behavioral health disorder and 70 percent of children in need of treatment […]
Author
MJS & Company (citing Kaiser Commission on the Uninsured, "Mental Health Financing in the United States: A Primer," April 2011)
June, 2013
The provision of the ACA that will have the most direct and discernable impacts on public transportation is the broadening of eligibility of the Medicaid program, a change that is expected to bring 11 million new participants into the program by 2018.
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Antonio Santalucia, Bethany Whitaker, and Ellen Oettinger
January, 2005
Examining population subgroups, one study found that 26.5% of households with incomes less than $20,000 do not own a vehicle.
Author
Richard Wallace, Paul Hughes-Cromwick, Hillary Mull, and Snehamay Khasnabis, Wayne State