Why Some Nonelderly Adult Medicaid Enrollees Appear Ineligible Based on Their Annual Income.

Context: Recent studies have highlighted Medicaid enrollment among middle- and higher-income populations and questioned whether the program is reaching those for whom it is intended.

Methods: The authors use administrative tax data to measure Medicaid enrollment and income in 2017, they use survey data to measure monthly income, and they use administrative data to identify Medicaid enrollment pathways.

Findings: Among 38.

Health Insurance For People Younger Than Age 65: Expiration Of Temporary Policies Projected To Reshuffle Coverage, 2023-33.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in 2023, 248 million people in the US who are younger than age sixty-five have health insurance coverage (mostly through employment-based plans), and twenty-three million people, or 8.3 percent of that age group, are uninsured-with significant variations in coverage by income and, to a lesser extent, by race and ethnicity. The unprecedented low uninsurance rate is largely attributable to temporary policies that kept beneficiaries enrolled in Medicaid and enhanced the subsidies available through the health insurance Marketplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Understanding the increasingly popular itemized deduction for medical expenses.

Itemized deduction for medical expenses has existed in one form or another for more than 60 years. One justification for this tax deduction is that it reduces the burden for taxpayers with catastrophic expenses. Currently it shields more out-of-pocket spending on health care from taxes than any other tax provision.

Medical savings accounts: what story do the data tell?

Fewer than a quarter-million tax units had reported a medical savings account (MSA) by the end of 2001. Nearly one-quarter of those having an MSA reported being previously uninsured. The tax data support the prediction that higher-income taxpayers are more likely than others to be MSA consumers.