January 14, 2015
By Sarah Wheaton,
Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion is under renewed assault in the states even as the health law faces threats in Washington from the Supreme Court and a Republican Congress.
A handful of Republican governors said that after the November elections, they’d be open to taking billions of federal dollars to cover millions of their low-income residents under the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion. Instead, Medicaid faces possible retrenchment after a Republican tide swept emboldened Obamacare foes into every level of government.
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In Tennessee, Gov. Bill Haslam may have figured out a way to squelch concerns about a revenue crunch. The state’s hospitals have agreed to foot the bill as the federal payments scale down. Haslam’s alternative plan “generally seems to be in line with recent CMS approvals,” wrote Joan Alker of Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families after he released details last week.
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