A person’s mental health can affect their feelings, thoughts, and actions (What 2013). Currently, 19 states have yet to expand Medicaid eligibility and mental health is an important topic of consideration (Current 2017). The first article is titled “The Effects of Medicaid Eligibility on Mental Health Services and Out-of-Pocket Spending for Mental Health Services” (hereinafter referred to as “Article #1”) and that article will be compared and contrasted to the article titled “Medicaid Expansions from 1997 to 2009 Increased Coverage and Improved Access and Mental Health Outcomes for Low-Income Parents” (hereinafter referred to as “Article #2”). I will compare and contrast the articles first by section with an overall analysis at the end.
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Because this is a retrospective study, it utilized more states and potential outcomes than other studies as well as compared states that did expand to states that did not. The majority of states increased eligibility for parents to get Medicaid between 1996-2010, though some states expanded significantly more than others. In theory, expanding Medicaid should increase access to health care while reducing OOP spending, leading to overall improvement of mental …show more content…
The main difference in the topics of mental health between the two articles is that Article #1 looks at mental health services and outcomes whereas Article #2 in the topic of mental health focuses mainly on the outcomes. While these two articles analyze similar populations, they are still different; Article #1 looks at nonelderly adults as their population versus Article #2, which, more specifically, analyzes parents. Article #2 discusses more of how states that expanded Medicaid previously fared versus states that did not while Article #1 mostly just uses their research in states that had some form of Medicaid expansion
Purpose …show more content…
Because this is a retrospective study, it utilized more states and potential outcomes than other studies as well as compared states that did expand to states that did not. The majority of states increased eligibility for parents to get Medicaid between 1996-2010, though some states expanded significantly more than others. In theory, expanding Medicaid should increase access to health care while reducing OOP spending, leading to overall improvement of mental …show more content…
The main difference in the topics of mental health between the two articles is that Article #1 looks at mental health services and outcomes whereas Article #2 in the topic of mental health focuses mainly on the outcomes. While these two articles analyze similar populations, they are still different; Article #1 looks at nonelderly adults as their population versus Article #2, which, more specifically, analyzes parents. Article #2 discusses more of how states that expanded Medicaid previously fared versus states that did not while Article #1 mostly just uses their research in states that had some form of Medicaid expansion