Health insurance is vital for accessing needed health care services, but wide disparities in coverage exist for Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) patients depending on where they live. Unsurprisingly, HCH programs in states that expanded Medicaid have much higher rates of insured patients compared to states that did not; however, even states that expanded Medicaid still have barriers to coverage.
Since 2013, HCH programs in expansion states cut their uninsured rate nearly in half—to 23%—while HCH programs in non-expansion states still have 66% of their patients remaining uninsured. Read our new fact sheet and find out how health insurance coverage for HCH programs in your state compares to coverage rates in others.
