Kaiser Health News
By: Phil Galewitz
As Kentucky’s uninsured rate has decreased from 20% to 7.5% thanks to Medicaid, the state is increasing their expenses, and tension to afford those under Gov. Bevin’s Medicaid expansion plan.
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Bevin’s proposals go beyond any Medicaid waivers granted by the Obama administration, said Adam Searing, senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
“Kentucky’s request to make changes to its Medicaid expansion program is all the more puzzling because it is so successful as is,” Searing said.
Searing said Bevin’s threat to end the expansion must be taken seriously, but in practice it would be difficult to carry out because hundreds of thousands of people would lose coverage and health providers would suffer financial hardship.
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