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A profile of Mississippi’s low-wage uninsured workers
A profile of Mississippi’s low-wage uninsured workers
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Alker, Joan, author
Corcoran, Alexandra, author
Johnson-Green, Margaux, author - Contributor(s):
- Georgetown University. Center for Children and Families, issuing body.
Mississippi Center for Justice, issuing body. - Publication:
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families, April 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Medicaid
Medically Uninsured
Poverty
Mississippi
United States
United States. - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The recently enacted American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) includes new financial incentives for states to extend health insurance coverage to low-wage workers and other adults earning less than $17,775 a year through Medicaid. These incentives apply to regular spending in a state’s Medicaid program and offer a five percentage point across the board increase in the federal share for a 24 month period after the state extends coverage. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that Mississippi’s budget would see a net gain of $400 million over a two year period if the state expanded Medicaid to take advantage of the new incentives. Approximately 166,600 uninsured adults would gain health insurance, comprising just over half of the state’s uninsured population. This factsheet examines which workers and industries would benefit from expansion of Medicaid coverage.4 The restaurant, food service, and construction industries employ the most uninsured low-wage workers, collectively accounting for more than a quarter of such workers (see Table 1). Cashiers, cooks, maids and housekeeping staff, waiters/waitresses, and retail workers are most likely to be uninsured (see Table 2).
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918334386206676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918334386206676