A Background of the Opioid Epidemic and Its Relationship to the Medicaid Expansion

Despite the recent increase in public awareness of the opioid epidemic, the background of this epidemic is still disappointingly unknown to the public. The opioid epidemic is a national crisis which impacts, not only individuals’ wellbeing but the economy of the United States. The federal government sought to mitigate it through the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Medicaid expansion, which was built into this law, sparked controversy; controversy which has yet to be solved to this day. Going forward, the knowledge we gather from examining the connection between this epidemic and the Medicaid expansion will be indispensable, for it is from studying prior successes and failures that we learn to improve

A Study of the Connection between the Affordable Care Act and the Economic Burden of the US Produced by the Opioid Epidemic

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