The Challenges To Expanding Medicaid, Enrollment To Vary From State To State

Republican governors who complain about the effect of Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid on state budgets, would be happy to read John Reichard’s report about the uncertainty surrounding the program’s enrollment growth. Two analysts speaking before an Institute of Medicine workshop on “health literacy” last week — Alice Weiss of the National Academy for State Health Policy and Georgetown University’s Sabrina Corlette — laid out the following challenges beneficiaries could face in applying for Medicaid of private insurance coverage through the exchanges...

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