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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

ACA and Medicaid

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  • Medicaid enrollment is health law’s bright spot, By Kelly Kennedy, November 14, 2013, USA Today: “Amid the low enrollment numbers for health insurance via the HealthCare.gov website, the Obama administration found one bright spot: Medicaid. Almost 400,000 people have learned they are eligible to enroll in the states’ Medicaid programs, and the numbers are high even in Republican-dominated states that have chosen not to expand the program…”
  • GOP senators steer clear of Medicaid expansion, tackle reform, By Virginia Young, November 14, 2013, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Republican state senators held firm Wednesday to their position that Medicaid must be overhauled before it is expanded, prompting Democrats to walk out of a work session on the health care law. The fireworks took place at the final meeting of the Missouri Senate Interim Committee on Medicaid Transformation and Reform, which was developing recommendations for the Legislature to consider when it convenes in January. The report gives thumbs down to expanding Medicaid eligibility to the working poor, saying that ‘before the state can consider expanding eligibility and increasing the number of participants to the program, transformation of the entire Medicaid program must occur…'”
  • Scott Walker to delay moving residents off Medicaid, By Jason Stein, November 14, 2013, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Responding to the troubled rollout of Obamacare, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he would delay for three months his plan to move more than 70,000 state residents out of state health coverage and into an online federal insurance market. At a Capitol news conference, the Republican governor said he would call lawmakers in for a special legislative session in early December to pass the change and keep those 77,500 patients from losing their state BadgerCare Plus coverage in January before the federal insurance program is ready to accept them. Walker said he wouldn’t take any additional federal Medicaid money to keep the recipients on BadgerCare and instead would pay for the extra expense by delaying the roughly similar cost of adding a new group of more than 80,000 very-low-income adults to the state program…”