DAILY JOURNAL: OUR OPINION: Medicaid expansion could start with all the eligibles
Some issues are important enough to pursue even against daunting political odds. A new coalition has emerged seeking approval by the Legislature and Gov. Phil Bryant of an expanded Medicaid eligibility in Mississippi, which could bring an additional 300,000 Mississippians, mostly working people who don’t make more than 138 percent of the federal poverty level, into coverage.
The expanded eligibility is part of the Affordable Care Act, more generally known as Obamacare.
The expanded coverage would be paid fully by the federal government for 2014, 2015, and 2016, and 90 percent by the federal government from then on.
Daily Journal
10/16/14
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