Urban: Senate Leaders' $200B For Wraparound Coverage Would Last Just Two Years

Senate GOP leadership and CMS officials have been looking to add $200 billion to the Better Care Reconciliation Act to support wraparound coverage for people no longer on Medicaid, but a new report from the Urban Institute finds that amount would cover only two years of costs. Urban also finds that without the additional funding only a fraction of individuals covered by Medicaid would enroll in BCRA coverage. The research brief builds off Urban's previous analysis to estimate the 2022...