PPACA Medicaid Expansion Projected To Raise State Medicaid Costs By Less Than 3%

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 (on a non-inflation adjusted basis), of $76 billion higher, or about 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. Accounting for all PPACA provisions affecting Medicaid except the expansion, between 2013 and 2022, state Medicaid spending is projected at $2 . . .