Obama Offers To Extend Full Medicaid Funding To Nonexpansion States

President Barack Obama is offering a special deal to states that haven't expanded Medicaid: three years of full federal funding of newly eligible beneficiaries, regardless of when the states expand the program. Congress would have to pass the legislative proposal. Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government pays the full cost of newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries in states that expand the program. After three years, the federal match gradually falls to 90 percent. Those states that haven't yet expanded...

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