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However, the court also ruled 5–4 that Medicaid expansion without the federal threat of defunding Medicaid in non-compliant states fell within the powers afforded by the Spending Clause to Congress. [27] Adoption of Medicaid expansion by individual states was effectively optional as a result of National Federation of Independent Business. [29]
The first possibility is that expansion states would use their own money to make up for lost federal dollars. That would cost them about $626 billion over 10 years, an overall spending increase of ...
Studies have linked Medicaid expansion with increases in employment levels and student status among enrollees. [136] [137] [138] A 2017 paper found that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act "reduced unpaid medical bills sent to collection by $3.4 billion in its first two years, prevented new delinquencies, and improved credit scores ...
A year earlier, Medicaid expansion legislation had nearly passed, but a Democratic lawmaker accidentally voted against the bill, leaving it one vote short. May 2015 Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) and the Republican legislature enact the most conservative version of Medicaid expansion to date, which requires enrollees to shoulder more of their ...
The Department of Health and Welfare is requesting a 3% increase next fiscal year. In next year’s Medicaid expansion budget request, federal expenses are up about $25 million, to $803 million ...
From that study, states that took Medicaid expansion "saved the lives of at least 19,200 adults aged 55 to 64 over the four-year period from 2014 to 2017." [245] Further, 15,600 older adults died prematurely in the states that did not enact Medicaid expansion in those years according to the NBER research. "The lifesaving impacts of Medicaid ...
Tracy Hartnett is a 47-year-old Medicaid beneficiary in Jane Lew, West Virginia. ... A work requirement attached to a recent expansion of Georgia’s Medicaid expansion survived a different legal ...
This 2012 event accounts for much of the difference; CBO reduced its Medicaid coverage expansion forecast for the year 2017 by 5 million between 2010 and 2013. [56] CBO forecast in February 2013 that there would be 29 million uninsured in 2017; the 2017 forecast is 27 million (2 million or 7% difference).