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The 2010 Affordable Care Act encouraged states to expand Medicaid programs to cover more low-income Americans who didn’t get health insurance through their jobs. ... match rate, it is likely ...
Noises emitted by President-elect Trump’s transition team suggest that, to finance tax cuts, he may seek to slash federal Medicaid “expansion” money flowing to 40 states, including Ohio ...
Within the ten states that have not opted for Medicaid expansion, the median income limit for eligibility in the traditional Medicaid program is 38 percent of the FPL. [a] The uninsured rate within the non-expansion states was 15.4 percent in March 2023 compared to 8.1 percent in expansion states. [2]
Among adults aged 18 to 64, states that expanded Medicaid had an uninsured rate of 7.3% in the first quarter of 2016, while non-expansion states had a 14.1% uninsured rate. [29] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimated that the cost of expansion was $6,366 per person for 2015, about 49 percent above previous estimates.
Nearly 40% of Ohio's budget is spent on Medicaid, insuring low-income residents, but is that investment reflected in how healthy its residents are?
Between December 2013 and December 2016, the national uninsured rate fell from 17.3 percent to 10.8 percent. The decrease is much greater in states that expanded Medicaid, and the gap between the top and bottom states has grown.
State tax levels indicate both the tax burden and the services a state can afford to provide residents. States use a different combination of sales , income , excise taxes , and user fees . Some are levied directly from residents and others are levied indirectly.
As MSN reported, extending the provisions of the 2017 tax bill so that they do not expire at the end of 2025 would add a whopping $4 trillion to America’s national debt, which has already grown ...