The Spokesman-Review

By: Shawn Vestal

As the number of people without health insurance begins to climb again, it’s worth remembering a baseline question in health care: Who pays when the patient can’t? It’s everybody else, one way or another.

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Research shows clear differences between the two approaches across the country. States that expanded Medicaid saw a drop of 40 percent in uncompensated care and a 37 percent drop in uninsured hospital stays in the two years after the ACA was adopted, according to an analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families that is cited by proponents of Medicaid expansion in Idaho.

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