Medicaid expansion doubled access to primary care, increased attention to health risks

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) When Michigan expanded its Medicaid program to cover more low-income residents, its leaders built in special features to encourage enrollees to understand their health risks, and incentivize them to prevent future health problems, or find them early. According to two new studies, that effort has paid off. The percentage of enrollees who saw a primary care doctor doubled, and many of those visits included a discussion of healthy behaviors that could im...