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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.
A report by the Kaiser Family Foundation in April 2008 found that US economic downturns place a significant strain on state Medicaid and SCHIP programs. The authors estimated that a 1% increase in the unemployment rate increase Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment by 1 million, and increase the number uninsured by 1.1 million.
But other states — Texas, Utah, Colorado and Florida — saw large numbers of children lose their Medicaid coverage. In many places, the exodus created a paperwork backlog.
Florida's drop in Medicaid enrollment is the second largest in the country after Texas’, according to the UnidosUS study. 8 in 10 calls automatically disconnected
Although the majority of Medicaid funding comes from the federal government, state governments get to make many decisions about how Medicaid works locally. Texas, for example, is one of just 10 ...
State governments use FMAP percentages to determine the federal government's contribution to specific state administered programs and assess their related budgetary outlays. For example, the general 2006-2007 FMAP rate for California was 50% meaning that for every dollar that California contributed to an eligible social or medical program ...
The Medicaid "unwinding" that began after eligibility checks resumed this year led millions of people to lose coverage. Texas has the most disenrollments.