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Liam Sigaud

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I’m an economist at the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University, where my research spans health economics, labor economics, and public economics.

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We've Got You Covered: Establishment-Level Evidence on California's Fast-Food Minimum Wage

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By Vitor Melo, David Neumark, Liam Sigaud
| National Bureau of Economic Research
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Copy Citation Vitor C. Melo, David Neumark, Liam Sigaud, and Gary A.
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Medicaid Expansion’s Growing Improper Enrollment Crisis

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By Liam Sigaud
| paragoninstitute.org
This paper finds that improper enrollment in the ACA’s Medicaid expansion increased sharply between 2019 and 2024, despite the completion of states’ post-pandemic eligibility reviews. Using federal survey, enrollment, and spending data, the analysis estimates that 9.2 million expansion enrollees—46 percent of the total—were likely ineligible in 2024 under its central assumptions, up from 4.9 million in 2019.
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How California Cheats ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion

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By Liam Sigaud, Brian Blase
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The Affordable Care Act’s perverse incentives cost U.S. taxpayers almost $33 billion in 2024 alone. By Liam Sigaud and Brian Blase He takes the Fifth about what he wrote. Photo: Christopher Arbisi California and many other states have turned ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion into a taxpayer-funded gravy train. It is the predictable consequence of a perverse design that harms those who most need Medicaid and taxpayers nationwide.
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