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NEJM Interview: Dr. Benjamin Sommers on increased pressure on state Medicaid programs caused by Covid-19 and policies for strengthening Medicaid.

Published: June 10, 2020, 3:01 p.m.

b'Dr. Benjamin Sommers is a primary care internist and a professor of health policy and economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Gruber and B.D. Sommers. Paying for Medicaid \\u2014 State Budgets and the Case for Expansion in the Time of Coronavirus. N Engl J Med 2020;382:2280-2282.'