Medicaid Provisions in Build Back Better

Last Updated: September 30, 2021

The need for health care reform in America remains a top priority, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spotlight pre-existing flaws in our nation’s profit-driven health care system. High costs of care, physician shortages, and over $140 billion in medical debt, reveal inadequacies in a system that leaves 43 percent of Americans uninsured or underinsured. Coverage gaps are particularly pronounced amongst people of color, with job losses and reductions in income from the COVID-19 pandemic disparately impacting these communities. Congressional lawmakers have an opportunity to readily address disparities in affordable health coverage by closing the Medicaid coverage gap in President Biden’s Build Back Better package.