While record numbers of Americans sign up for the larger Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, financial issues are emerging for medical care providers in the two dozen states that didn’t go along with the expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Reports out in the last week indicate the gap between those with health care coverage is widening between states that agreed to go along with the health law’s Medicaid expansion and those generally led by Republican legislatures and GOP governors that are balking at the expansion.
The moves against expansion are “beginning to hurt hospitals in states that opted out,” a report last week from Fitch Ratings said. The U.S. Department of Health and Human services has said Medicaid enrollment in the 26 states including the District of Columbia that agreed to go along with and implemented the expansion by the end of May “rose by 17 percent, while states that have not expanded reported only a 3 percent increase,” HHS said in an enrollment update for the Medicaid program.
“We expect providers in states that have chosen not to participate in expanded Medicaid eligibility to face increasing financial challenges in 2014 and beyond,” Fitch said in its July 16 report. “Nonprofit hospitals and healthcare systems in states that have expanded their Medicaid coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have begun to realize the benefit from increased insurance coverage.”
Already, the financial ratings agency said it has downgraded 10 health care entities so far this year and five of those were in states that have not gone along with the Medicaid expansion.
I think what we are seeing is by putting all their lies in the same basket of their perception of their dirty work making ACA fail and not be successful, we heard them say they want him Pres. to fail that means anything connected to him as well. but it hasn't and it's not an abomination to want fellow Americans less fortunate to have health care. so now they are left holding a sack of misleading information and the only thing they can think to do is push it further out there.
it's like they were like 2012, were convinced their skullduggery and shenanigans would work and just to show you it was not about a better plan because they have yet to come up with one except the Ryan voucher crap, point is they have no better anything than this admin not coming up with a plan even after being called out many times for not they still didn't, sure they could sink ACA and we would be left with what was insurance co. tyranny was their intent to this day and beyond.
