Medicaid Expansion Particularly Benefits Poor Regions of the United States

Those states on the green spectrum have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act while those states on the tan spectrum have not. The darker the color the more people are benefiting from the expansion or would benefit from expansion. Many of the states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are those that would have benefitted the most.

Source: Author’s calculations using data from the Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics of Income and information from the Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts