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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.
In 2016, the year Montana’s legislature expanded Medicaid, the overall program provided benefits to 125,000 children, 50,000 adults in the original Medicaid, and 50,000 adults in the expanded plan.
Medicaid is funded by the federal and state governments, which both played a role in unwinding — with states executing the redeterminations and the federal government providing oversight.
The report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum does not take a position on expanding Medicaid but pointed to the estimated $1.7 billion in savings an expansion would deliver the state over two years. It ...
A look at why so many people may no longer qualify for the Medicaid program over the next year and what you need to know if you're one of those people who relies on the program. At the beginning ...
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.)
Health officials are bracing for chaos as states begin to determine — for the first time in three years — who is eligible for Medicaid, as a key pandemic policy of guaranteed eligibility ends.
The Affordable Care Act’s chief aim is to extend coverage to people without health insurance. One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion.