Here are four things to know.
1. A number of homeless people gained coverage under the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. With the ACA’s future uncertain, many homeless people are worried about losing their health coverage, according to the report.
2. Advocates for the homeless have contended better health coverage should eventually reduce costly emergency room visits and help homeless people get off the streets by dealing with chronic problems, reports NPR.
3. Kellyanne Conway, a top advisor to President Donald Trump, has said the president wants to give states more control over Medicaid by converting the program to block grants.
4. Nearly 900,000 patients are served by Health Care for the Homeless projects nationwide, according to the report. At the end of 2015, about 50 percent of those patients had Medicaid coverage. Prior to the launch of the ACA, only 30 percent of the patients had health insurance, according to the report.
For more on this story, read Pam Fessler’s full report here.
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