NAMI Report – State Medicaid Expansions Will Strengthen Mental Health Care, Gain Billions in Federal Dollars

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates Nationwide, 2.7 million currently uninsured individuals living with mental illness would become eligible for health care under Medicaid expansion. In the report, "Medicaid Expansion and Mental Health Care," NAMI lists 21 states in which the proportion of uninsured persons who would benefit from Medicaid expansion and are living with mental illness totals 20 to 30 percent. Of those 21 states, seven have approved Medicaid expansion: Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Vermont. Five have rejected it: Alabama, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In both Minnesota and Nebraska, 30 percent of . . .