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Several states have trigger laws where if federal funding drops, so would Medicaid expansion.
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 ...
As public support for expansion continues to grow in holdout states, North Carolina, the most recent Southern state to pass Medicaid expansion, may offer a glimpse of the future.
Congress passed the original Medicaid program in 1965 as a health insurance safety net for the most vulnerable low-income people in the United States. These individuals include the poor, parents ...
More states implement Medicaid expansion: There are now 40 states that have adopted the Obamacare provision expanding Medicaid coverage to more low-income adults. That’s nine more than in 2017 ...
With Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature refusing to expand Medicaid, a ballot effort is underway to get it before voters in 2026. With Florida GOP leaders refusing Medicaid expansion ...
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.
Hosemann said Georgia, the only state that requires Medicaid recipients to meet a work requiremen. After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi’s Republican leaders now say ...