Expanding Medicaid Projected To Raise State Medicaid Costs By Less Than Three Percent By 2022

If all states expanded their Medicaid programs to cover low-income, uninsured, childless adults, state Medicaid spending would increase from $2,679 billion in 2013 to $2,756 billion in 2022, only $76 billion higher, representing an increase in state Medicaid spending of less than three percent for the decade. The 2013 estimate for state Medicaid allocations is a baseline of what states would have spent if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) had never been enacted. However, because the PPACA was enacted and later upheld, with one exception that permits states to opt-out of . . .