Medicaid Expansion is All or Nothing
Posted at 11:45 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2012
The Hill reports that the Obama administration has determined that “States must take or leave the entire Medicaid expansion under President Obama’s healthcare law, and cannot expand the program only partially.”
“The Affordable Care Act expands Medicaid to cover people at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty line. The federal government initially pays the entire cost of the expansion, with the federal share dropping to 90 percent by 2020.”
“Some states had asked whether they could expand Medicaid only partially — not all the way to 133 percent of poverty — and still get the full federal payment. HHS said Monday that it simply doesn’t have that authority.”
