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Medicaid Expansion: Who's In? Who's Out?

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In the week since the Supreme Court upheld almost all of President Obama's health care law, some of the biggest action has been on the Medicaid front, where the administration definitely lost.

Until last week, the Affordable Care Act was expected to drive an expansion of Medicaid to the tune of about 17 million more people being covered over the next 10 years.

The Affordable Care Act, as written, would have required states to provide Medicaid coverage to adults, whether they have children or not, with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.

Now that expansion is optional, and it's unclear how many uninsured people will ultimately gain coverage under the law.

Read the full story: http://tinyurl.com/7nu9o4t

Source: NPR

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