Medicaid Costs – Ohio

Medicaid expansion to cost $2.3B, By Catherine Candisky, April 1, 2011, Columbus Dispatch: “Plans to expand Medicaid under the new federal health-care law will cost Ohio taxpayers $2.3billion from 2014 to 2019, according to new state projections obtained by The Dispatch. An estimated 50 percent spike in enrollment will drive up Medicaid costs around $900 million from earlier forecasts. The state-federal tax-funded program serving nearly 2 million poor and disabled Ohioans is expected to grow by 936,000 in 2014. State officials project that nearly a third of new enrollees are already eligible for Medicaid and expected to sign up after the federal law requiring Americans to have health coverage goes into effect in 2014. Most will qualify for coverage under expanded eligibility guidelines…”