Hurricane Harvey will cause some employers to fail and their employees to lose insurance. Not true for Medicare, Medicaid, Exchanges.
— Amitabh Chandra (@amitabhchandra2) August 29, 2017
States that adapted Medicaid expansion would see an even more comprehensive safety net and shock absorber but this point is critical. There is now a more comprehensive and mobile safety net that can be better at catching people thrown around by a catastrophe today than there was in 2009.
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