Health Care Reform Update: State Medicaid Expansion Calculus

Health Care Reform Update: State Medicaid Expansion Calculus
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the national health care story has shifted to focus on the impact of the Court’s ruling that states can opt-out of ACA’s Medicaid eligibility expansion requirement to include low-income adults (see Individual Mandate Stays – SCOTUS Puts State Medicaid Expansion In Play all members). Under the ruling, states could lose the opportunity to access new Medicaid funds if they don’t participate in the expansion, but not the Medicaid funding they . . .