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

States and Medicaid Expansion

States find savings through Medicaid expansion, By Michael Ollove, April 29, 2015, Stateline: “Medicaid expansion has given a budget boost to participating states, mostly by allowing them to use federal money instead of state dollars to care for pregnant women, inmates, and people with mental illness, disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and breast and cervical cancer, according to two new reports.  States that levy assessments and fees on health care providers, which have collected higher revenues as a result of expansion, have reaped extra benefits…”