The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says the partial Medicaid expansion sought by some GOP governors is being reconsidered
President Donald Trump last year shut down a push by several Republican governors and administration officials to allow states to offer a partial expansion of Medicaid, a change that would cover fewer Americans than required under the Affordable Care Act. Eight months later, the policy is now “under review,” said Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid was expanded to cover all Americans who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line. In 2012, however, the Supreme Court ruled that states have the right to opt out of the expansion. Any state that wishes to expand Medicaid would receive the federal funding for it; those states that choose not to will not lose their existing Medicaid funding.
Asked what other changes to the health care system she’d like to undertake, Verma made clear that she considers her job unfinished.
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