@1130 posted:how is this expanding Medicaid being paid for? Trump robbing the country? hmm wasn't it Biden's son who got a million dollar job from taxpayer kickbacks?
https://www.healthinsurance.or.../medicaid-expansion/
A provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) called for expansion of Medicaid eligibility in order to cover more low-income Americans. Under the expansion, Medicaid eligibility would be extended to adults up to age 64 with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (133 percent plus a 5 percent income disregard).
But in June 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not be forced to expand their Medicaid programs, so it was left to each state to determine whether to participate or not.
However, in the states that have not expanded Medicaid, there’s a coverage gap that leaves about 2.5 million people ineligible for any sort of affordable coverage. And according to US Census data, the percentage of people below the poverty level who are uninsured is more than twice as high in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, compared with states that have. To be clear, this is due to the decisions that their states have made, rather than a flaw in the ACA itself. The states could opt to accept federal funding to expand Medicaid at any time, thus closing the coverage gap.
Five states — Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee — account for the lion’s share of the coverage gap population, and they are among the 14 states where expansion is still a contentious issue and the legislature and/or governor are still strongly opposed to accepting federal funding to expand Medicaid. North Carolina has been in the national spotlight in 2019 over Medicaid expansion discussions, but it appears unlikely that the state will pass expansion this year.