… Until the Obamacare individual marketplaces open for enrollment.
Here is the Kaiser Family Foundation’s updated map of where states stand on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion provision. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that states possess the option to expand their Medicaid eligibility levels for childless adults living under 138% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). The federal health law projects that if all 50 states expand their Medicaid programs, 16 million more adults would become dependent on public health insurance. Reality tells a different story – just 24 states and D.C. have gone forth with expansion, amounting to 6 million additional Medicaid recipients.
The Breakdown:
–21 states in the gang of “no” (including North Carolina)
–5 states leaning toward “no”
–24 states and D.C. leaning toward “yes”
