2.3 million people would gain health coverage in 2024 if 10 states were to expand Medicaid eligibility
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Urban Institute research report
- Author(s):
- Buettgens, Matthew, author Ramchandani, Urmi, author
- Contributor(s):
- Health Policy Center (Urban Institute), issuing body. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Urban Institute, October 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Eligibility Determination -- legislation & jurisprudence Health Equity Health Policy Medicaid -- legislation & jurisprudence Medicaid -- organization & administration Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Under the Affordable Care Act, states have the option to expand Medicaid eligibility to nonelderly people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. As of the time of writing, only 10 states had not agreed to do so: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A 2022 voter referendum approved Medicaid expansion in South Dakota, which took effect in July 2023. In March 2023, the governor of North Carolina signed Medicaid expansion into law. This brief examines coverage in 2024, hence, we consider North Carolina and South Dakota as Medicaid expansion states. Governors, legislators, and other stakeholders in many of the nonexpansion states are actively debating Medicaid expansion.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vii, 31 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918734184106676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918734184106676