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About 5.2 Million Poor People Won't Get Insurance Because Their States Resisted Obamacare: Study
About 5.2 million poor, uninsured adults will fall into the coverage gap, created by 26 states choosing not to expand Medicaid under the federal health law next year, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
These people are projected to have incomes too high to qualify for their states existing Medicaid programs, but below the federal poverty level (nearly $11,500 for an individual) required to be eligible for federal subsidies to buy private coverage on the new online insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid is the state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
Millions of adults will remain outside the reach of the ACA and continue to have limited, if any, options for health coverage, the study concludes.
The law provides full federal funding for three years to states that expand Medicaid to cover residents under 138 percent of the poverty level (or just under $15,900 for an individual). But the Supreme Court made that requirement effectively optional for states, and most Republican led-states have opted against expanding the program.
There is no deadline by which states must opt to expand Medicaid, and a few states are still considering it.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/obamacare-medicaid-gap_n_4108450.html
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About 5.2 Million Poor People Won't Get Insurance Because Their States Resisted Obamacare: Study (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2013
OP
This is something we can fix if we get the word out. Everyone making less than $12,000/yr can
stevenleser
Oct 2013
#1
It can be fixed by putting pressure on the governors in these states to expand Medicaid.
Drunken Irishman
Oct 2013
#3
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)1. This is something we can fix if we get the word out. Everyone making less than $12,000/yr can
estimate their income next year at $12,000/yr and get a Silver plan for $12/mo for an individual. The guidance has come out that people will not be penalized for overestimating their income.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)3. It can be fixed by putting pressure on the governors in these states to expand Medicaid.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)5. True, but I am talking about an immediate workaround.
Second thing we can do is exactly what you said, third option, vote those jerks out!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)6. That is important.
Here's an article on that tactic, not 100% risk free, but I'd darn sure try it if in that position.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/August/12/income-projections-low-income-Obamacare-state-medicaid-marketplace-exchange.aspx
Good post.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. Damn..I AM below the poverty line.
Luckily, there is Medicare.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)4. Saved from the scourge
of good health and comfort by that champion of the people, Ted Cruz. Do you like being sick and unable to get healthcare? Then Ted Cruz speaks for YOU!