04-09-2014, 06:12 PM
http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief...-medicaid/
The money is there to cover these people. It's paid for without raising the national deficit (though states will be required to come up with 10% of the total if they want to continue coverage in a few years).
Just for some perspective - there are 28 states with a population of 4.8 million or less. The number of people who should be getting covered but aren't in just the state of Texas alone is almost twice the population of the state of Wyoming.
Estimates of People in the Coverage Gap
Nationally, nearly five million poor uninsured adults will fall into the “coverage gap” that results from state decisions not to expand Medicaid (Figure 4 and Table 2), meaning their income is above current Medicaid eligibility but below the lower limit for Marketplace premium tax credits. These individuals would have been newly-eligible for Medicaid had their state chosen to expand coverage. More than a fifth of people in the coverage gap reside in Texas, which has both a large uninsured population and very limited Medicaid eligibility (Figure 4). Sixteen percent live in Florida, nine percent in Georgia, seven percent live in North Carolina, and six percent live in Pennsylvania.
The money is there to cover these people. It's paid for without raising the national deficit (though states will be required to come up with 10% of the total if they want to continue coverage in a few years).
Just for some perspective - there are 28 states with a population of 4.8 million or less. The number of people who should be getting covered but aren't in just the state of Texas alone is almost twice the population of the state of Wyoming.