What is expanded Medicaid in Michigan?
What is expanded Medicaid in Michigan?
The expanded Medicaid program is called Healthy Michigan, and it includes premiums for people with income above the poverty level. Over 900,000 Michiganders are enrolled in expanded Medicaid as of spring 2021, up from about 650,000 before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
What is the Medicaid expansion decision?
A provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) called for the expansion of Medicaid eligibility in order to cover more low-income Americans. Under the expansion, Medicaid eligibility would be extended to adults up to age 64 with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (133% plus a 5% income disregard).
What state is opposed to Medicaid expansion?
However, as of now, 12 states are refusing to expand Medicaid. Those states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
What is the highest income for Medicaid?
So in a state in the continental U.S. that has expanded Medicaid (which includes most, but not all, states), a single adult is eligible for Medicaid in 2021 with an annual income of $17,774. Medicaid eligibility is determined based on current monthly income, so that amounts to a limit of $1,481 per month.
Is Medicaid expansion bad?
In some years, Medicaid expansion is associated with an increase in total non-Medicaid spending. In other years, it is associated with a decrease in total non-Medicaid spending. In all years, the effect is not precise, so the results are not statistically significant.
Does Michigan have expanded Medicaid?
The expanded Medicaid program is called Healthy Michigan, and it includes premiums for people with income above the poverty level. Nearly 750,000 Michiganders are enrolled in expanded Medicaid as of mid-2020, up from about 650,000 before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Did Michigan accept the Medicaid expansion?
Medicaid expansion is part of the ACA, but the U.S. Supreme Court left the decision to accept Medicaid expansion up to the states. And Michigan is among those with Republican-controlled legislatures that are fighting against Medicaid expansion out of what seems to be pure ideology.
What Medicaid expansion really is?
Thirty-six states and DC have either already expanded Medicaid under the ACA or are in the process of doing so.
What is the impact of Medicaid expansion?
In addition, the Medicaid expansion will reduce state and local government costs for uncompensated care and other services they provide to the uninsured, which will offset at least some — and in a number of states, possibly all or more than all — of the modest increase in state Medicaid costs.
