Evening Must-Read: Sahil Kapur: GOP States Give Up $423 Billion By Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
Sahil Kapur: GOP States Give Up $423 Billion By Rejecting Medicaid Expansion "The 24 states which refused to expand Medicaid under Obamacare...
...are poised to give up $423.6 billion in federal funds over a decade and keep 6.7 million residents uninsured, according to a new study by the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.... Since September 2013 the number of uninsured fell by 38 percent in expansion states and just 9 percent in non-expansion states, the study found.... The study pointed to other economic costs for non-expansion states, notably the higher cost of uncompensated care for hospitals, who are legally required to provide emergency care for patients whether or not they're insured...
