FW: Medicaid expansion a good deal for states! And only 1.2 percent of Americans to pay "tax"

[Sara Finger]

From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Health Reform’s Medicaid Expansion: A Good Deal for States

Expanding Medicaid will add very little to what states would have spent on Medicaid without health reform, while providing health coverage to 17 million more low-income adults and children.

It will reduce state and local government costs for uncompensated care and other services they provide to the uninsured, which will offset at least some — and in a number of states, possibly all or more than all — of the modest increase in state Medicaid costs. Read more

Related:

§  CBO: Only 1.2 Percent of Americans Will Pay Penalty for Not Getting Health Coverage

§  Greenstein: Supreme Court Decision Will Allow Health Reform to Bring Major Benefits to the Nation, Especially If States Do Their Job

 

 

 

View the full report:
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3801
http://www.cbpp.org/files/7-12-12health.pdf 9 pp.

 

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