Andrew Strohman, Health Care Data Analyst January 17, 2020
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently published
a report breaking
down the health insurance coverage gap. As a refresher, the coverage gap refers
to individuals in non-Medicaid expansion states with income too low for
Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies but who do not qualify for Medicaid.
Medicaid expansion closes this gap by expanding Medicaid eligibility
effectively to all individuals at less than 138 percent of the federal poverty
level, but some states have hesitated to adopt it amid concerns about the
potential long-term impact on state budgets. The chart below depicts the
population in the coverage gap for each state that has not expanded Medicaid.
Texas contributes the largest percent of the national population in the gap at
32.7 percent (761,000 people), followed by Florida at 16.8 percent. Of note,
Wisconsin has not expanded Medicaid but fills the gap with a Medicaid waiver;
in other words, it solved the problem without expansion but through similar
mechanisms.
Data obtained from
the Kaiser Family
Foundation
https://www.americanactionforum.org/weekly-checkup/the-limits-of-managed-care-hotspotting/#ixzz6BfqjZbyR
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