MedPage Today September 13, 2019
Several states are considering letting people buy into their Medicaid programs
Sure, everyone’s heard that several of the Democratic presidential candidates are supporting their own version of Medicare for All. But there’s one thing you don’t hear them say much about: the idea of “Medicaid for more.”
Several states are looking into the idea of a so-called “Medicaid buy-in,” in which people who are not currently eligible for Medicaid but who don’t make enough money to afford private health insurance could buy into their state’s Medicaid plan — or some version of it. “It’s an effort on behalf of a number of different states … addressing the issue that even with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), even with...
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