Maps: Coverage Gains and Budget Challenges and Where Obamacare would expand Medicaid most.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)While the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the core of President Obama’s health care law Thursday, the justices came down hard against a provision that would have expanded Medicaid to millions more low-income Americans. As passed by Congress, the legislation expanded Medicaid to nearly everyone making up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, which would have added an estimated 16 million people to state Medicaid rolls over the next seven years. States that refused to comply would run the risk of losing all Medicaid funding.
Seven justices ruled that
the move went too far, and that the government can only withhold the
funds to expand Medicaid, not existing money that helps states run their
pre-expansion programs.http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=104737
