Federal Government Will Pick Up 96% of Tab for Health Reform Medicaid Expansion

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News The federal government will cover 96% of the $454 billion cost of health reform-related Medicaid expansion from 2010 to 2020 according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). Several states have claimed that expanding Medicaid will substantially increase state costs; CBPP says over the first five years of the expansion, state Medicaid costs will increase by 1.25% above what the states were already expected to spend on Medicaid without health reform. The health reform legislation calls for expanding Medicaid to an estimated 16 million . . .