Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: Medicaid Expansion's Coverage Gains Won't Hurt State Budgets, Even in Recession
June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following news:
By Jesse Cross-Call, Senior Policy Analyst
With Oklahoma and Missouri voters deciding this summer whether their states will extend Medicaid to a combined 600,000 people by adopting the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion, opponents are again falsely claiming that states can't afford the expansion, warning that the COVID-19 pandemic and recession will drive e . . .
By Jesse Cross-Call, Senior Policy Analyst
With Oklahoma and Missouri voters deciding this summer whether their states will extend Medicaid to a combined 600,000 people by adopting the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion, opponents are again falsely claiming that states can't afford the expansion, warning that the COVID-19 pandemic and recession will drive e . . .