6.3 Million Eligible For MedicAid Post Obamacare

[angelatc]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/22/us-usa-healthcare-medicaid-idUSBREA0L27N20140122

The swelling rolls for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reflect both an expansion of Medicaid under Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) and what healthcare policy analysts call an "out-of-the-woodwork effect," in which people who heard about Obamacare sought to obtain health insurance and discovered that they had qualified for Medicaid even before the law expanded eligibility.


It was not clear how much credit goes to the healthcare law, however.




The 6.3 million people determined eligible for Medicaid or CHIP last fall swamps the 2.2 million people who had purchased private health insurance on the state-based Obamacare marketplaces that launched on October 1.


A Supreme Court decision in 2012 allowed each U.S. state to decide whether to accept the expansion. So far, 25 states have reached an agreement with the administration to do so. Prior to the ACA, just over 60 million Americans were covered by Medicaid.


In December alone, 2.3 million individuals were determined eligible to enroll in Medicaid or CHIP, an increase of over 20 percent from November, according to the report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the lead Obamacare agency

Credit? Should be blame! Unfreaking real.

 

[Dianne]

My state of N.C. didn't opt into the expanded Medicaid. So those with no income, or less than 12,000 per year (roughly), receive no coverage under Obamacare or Medicaid and the hospitals/doctors will be fined if they treat anyone with no insurance. Genocide of the poor? I thought those were the very people, Obamacare was supposed to help.

 

[torchbearer]

Anyone making less the 12,500 qualify for medicaid, but not all states are going to pay out. louisiana has refused to adopt the new medicaid policies.
but those medicaid numbers do show how many poor people our government has created.

here is a trick if you want to get in on the action- make sure you don't make more the 22,500 of claimable/detectable income... which would put you right under 200% above poverty line... but would give you really good insurance at almost no cost to you.

one such policy i had quoted to me had these perks- (blue cross)
80/20 PPO (wide open network)
$400 deductable
$20 copay
$35 for specialist
full prescription coverage starting with $7 generics.
max out of pocket $2150, which all of the above(besides scripts) will count against.

this is a $500/month policy...
but if my projected income is $22,500/year or less, i'd pay $137.08/month for this policy.

 

[juleswin]

25 states have accepted medicaid expansion which is 90% funded by the federal govt(read all 50 states), so I am not surprised that the states would want to increase the number of people in the program. Heck, I will be inefficient with my funds if I knew you were paying 90% of it.