States and Medicaid Expansion – IRP Poverty Dispatch

Tens of thousands could be kicked off Medicaid in historically generous states, By N.C. Aizenman, April 6, 2013, Washington Post: “At a time when most states are preparing to expand their Medicaid programs in line with the new health-care law, tens of thousands of people in states with historically generous Medicaid coverage could soon be kicked off the rolls. In Wisconsin, officials want to to take advantage of the law to shift nearly 100,000 low-income people from the health insurance program for the poor into subsidized private plans. An additional 180,000 people in five other states could lose coverage because they are in experimental versions of Medicaid that expire this year and may not be renewable under the new law…”
Medicaid expansion foundering, By Catherine Candisky and Jim Siegel, April 6, 2013, Columbus Dispatch: “The ‘Obamacare’ label could doom Gov. John Kasich’s plan to accept billions in federal dollars to cover 275,000 more uninsured poor Ohioans. Despite weeks of public and private attempts at persuasion, the governor faces an unrelenting rebellion within his own party from lawmakers who oppose expanding Medicaid or even the remotest association with President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act…”