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In states that have not expanded Medicaid, hundreds of thousands of people fall into the “coverage gap,” meaning they earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but are not eligible for subsidies ...
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. Forty states and the District of ...
Cutting federal spending is one of Trump’s many goals for his second term in the White House, and although he did not explicitly outline his plans for Medicaid, some suspect he may try to slash ...
If the state does not expand Medicaid before the end of the year, it leaves a $1.5 billion bonus on the table. The federal government will still pay 90% of costs, even without that bonus.
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.
So he waited for the state to roll out a program this year that offers dental care to the more than 650,000 Medicaid recipients like him who are 21 and older. Tennessee is spending about $75 ...
But a crucial Supreme Court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion, entrenching a two-tiered health care system in America, where the uninsured rate remains disproportionately high in mainly Republican-led Southern and Southwestern states.
Among the main reasons: A record number of people signing up for Obamacare policies. Nine more states expanding Medicaid coverage to more than 2 million adults. Much higher favorability ratings ...