Medicaid Expansion and Health Insurers

Medicaid insurers gear up for profit, By Phil Galewitz, March 8, 2013, USA Today: “After his back injury kept him out of work last year, Sergio Mera enrolled his family in Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor. These days when they need a doctor, the Meras travel less than a mile from their home to a new clinic. ‘They take good care of you,’ says Mera, 37, as he sits in an exam room with his wife and two kids. The clinic, affiliated with Molina Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest Medicaid managed-care plans, is one of about a dozen facilities the company is opening across the country to handle a wave of new customers in 2014. That’s when about 10 million more people are expected to sign up for Medicaid managed care under the Affordable Care Act, and as states shift enrollees into private plans, according to trade group Medicaid Health Plans of America…”