Unrequited Engagement: Misadventures in Advocating for Medicaid Expansion

This essay turns an ethnographic gaze upon one of the major benefits of the Affordable Care Act: expanding Medicaid to low-income adults, and has a second aim of reflecting on the role and limitations of a public anthropology in larger health-care debates through the consideration of the authors' previous lack of success in publicizing their ethnographic research in health policy and clinical journals.