The ‘Non-Medicaid’ Medicaid Expansion

We are at five years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and we’re one-year post implementation of many of the major provisions of the law. In the wake of these changes, one thing our team at OPEN MINDS has noted is that across the country, we are seeing the emergence of a varied system, where Medicaid looks different from state-to-state. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that while Congress can expand Medicaid, it can’t deny existing Medicaid allotments to those states that choose to not participate in . . .