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In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
Gallup reported the percentage of population uninsured throughout 2016 in states that expanded and did not expand Medicaid. For comparison, we added 2013 percentages for each state. (All states' uninsured percentages dropped between 2013 and 2016.)
The causes of this rate of uninsurance remain a matter of political debate. In 2018, states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA had an uninsured rate that averaged 8%, about half the rate of those states that did not (15%). [10] Nearly half those without insurance cite its cost as the primary factor.
“We know that when people cannot see or hear well, or have poor oral health, it hinders their ability to seek and maintain a job,” Gov. Beshear said of the expansion for 900,000 Kentuckians.
Colorado is a Medicaid expansion state, and unlike Kansas, it has not lost a rural hospital. Not one. I saw the difference between a state that did not expand Medicaid — and one that did.
Sebelius (2012) that this withdrawal of funding was unconstitutionally coercive and that individual states had the right to opt out of the Medicaid expansion without losing pre-existing Medicaid funding from the federal government. For states that do expand Medicaid, the law provides that the federal government will pay for 100% of the ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Trump administration has again approved new rules for some of Kentucky's Medicaid population, requiring them to either get a job, volunteer in the community or go to ...