About 3.7 million people are at immediate risk of losing health coverage should the federal government cut funding for Medicaid expansions, as some allies of President-elect Donald Trump have proposed.
Medicaid covers people who make up to 130% of the federal poverty rate. At least in states that chose to expand it. It was 100% prior to the ACA. It’s the extra 30% coverage that he has suggested he will eliminate.
That’s Medicare.
Medicaid covers people who make up to 130% of the federal poverty rate. At least in states that chose to expand it. It was 100% prior to the ACA. It’s the extra 30% coverage that he has suggested he will eliminate.
medicare itself is at risk for other undesirable changes, like moving everyone over to for-profit
death panelsadvantage plans.