Current Policy Part IIIMedicaid Expansion Policy

Team BDenise Clemente, Todd Harris.

Ashley Phipps, & Jennifer ReynoldsHCS/455

Stephen GregorieOctober 20, 2014

Presentation Overview

Politics

Health Care Spending

Affordable Care Act

Inequitable Health Care

Promoting Better Outcomes

Understanding the Medicaid Expansion

Exploring Rationale Behind Public Policy

Reduces the rate of Uninsured

Why Expand Medicaid?

Understanding Health Care Costs

“The PPACA Medicaid Expansion provides states with additional federal funding to expand their Medicaid programs to cover adults under 65 with income up to 133% of the federal poverty level. (Because of the way this is calculated, it’s effectively 138% of the federal poverty level.) Children (18 and under) are eligible up to that income level or higher in all states”

(Health Care.gov, Medicaid Expansion, para. 1, 2014)

Medicaid Expansion: Facts & Misconceptions

Despite Misconception, Medicaid ExpansionProvides both Comprehensive & DiverseEconomic & Social Benefit to the US Population.

Texas is ONLY one of 26 states to refuse PPACA Medicaid Expansion funding. Texas is also the state with the highest population of uninsured residents in the US.

Medicaid Expansion Refusal

Opportunities ChallengesIncreased Access to Health Care Debate over Funding

Equality in Health Care Future Costs still projecting to rise.

Reduction in Bankruptcies $1.3 Trillion in Spending over the next Decade.

Reduction of Bad Debt and Undercompensated Care budgets

State Refusal to Participate

Improve the Delivery of Health Care in the US.

Doesn’t Fill all Coverage Gaps

Medicaid Expansion Associated

CONCLUSION

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