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Hospital Closures Up In States That Didn't Expand Medicaid, Study Finds

A new study published in the journal Health Affairs reports that states that rejected the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion had a significant increase in hospital closures.

STAT reporter Casey Ross (@caseymross) tells Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti about the findings.

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