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ACA: After Court Decision, All Eyes on States
Following last week's Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the focus is now on the states and how they'll react to the law's Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchanges.
"States are now Ground Zero for health reform: the law puts enormous pressure on states to act quickly and decisively," Paul Keckley, executive director for Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, wrote in a Friday memo. "Should they implement an insurance exchange, or default to a federally run alternative? Should the state's Medicaid program be expanded per the law?"