States and Medicaid Expansion – IRP Poverty Dispatch

Medicaid health insurance to expand under Obamacare in Kentucky, By Jessie Halladay, May 10, 2013, Louisville Courier-Journal: “More than 300,000 uninsured Kentuckians will become eligible for Medicaid after Gov. Steve Beshear announced Thursday that the state will expand the health insurance program — taking advantage of President Barack Obama’s controversial Affordable Care Act…”
Mich. House GOP presents plan to expand Medicaid, By Chad Livengood, May 9, 2013, Detroit News: “A House Republican proposal to expand the income eligibility limit for Medicaid health insurance for the poor emerged Thursday after months of debate over Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to add more than 400,000 Michiganians to the program. But the plan is far different than the across-the-board expansion of the existing program that the Republican governor requested, and it’s predicated on federal approval of major changes to the Medicaid program in Michigan…”
How some rural areas are being pinched by lack of Medicaid expansion, By Blake Farmer, May 9, 2013, Marketplace: “An expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act is supposed to cover more of the working poor and balance out cuts that were made to already-struggling hospitals. But Republican-led states have been opting out or at least holding out, and outlying areas in states like Tennessee may be the hardest hit…”