Nine states poised to end coverage for millions if Trump cuts Medicaid funding

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https://www.alternet.org/medicaid-coverage/

Nine states poised to end coverage for millions if Trump cuts Medicaid funding

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health NewsDecember 04, 2024

With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block.

More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage should the GOP reduce the extra federal Medicaid funding that’s enabled states to widen eligibility, according to KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News, and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. That’s because the states have trigger laws that would swiftly end their Medicaid expansions if federal funding falls.

The states are Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.

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1. Ain't that America

And how many voted for Trump?

[Blues Heron]

2. all for the price of eggs....

[appalachiablue]

3. Tragic, thanks for posting.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Hmmm...sounds like another giant migration is getting ready to start, those w/o will move to those states still

providing these svcs vs. those that stopped it. But it's going to probably (the cuts) to expand to other states.

The motto: Take my healthcare away...and I thought govt was supposed to help people, boy, was I wrong.

[stillcool]

5. we all should be poised

for anything