A MASSIVE Republican failure in the making

States not expanding Medicaid set to lose billions (Click on this heading for the original post)

Rss@dailykos.com (joan Mccarter)

Thursday, December 05, 2013, 2:10 pm

The biggest loser.

 

States refusing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act will lose more than $35 billion collectively in federal funds by 2022, and cost their taxpaying citizens more.

That's from a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.

Not expanding Medicaid is not a rational decision for any state. But there are some very big losers: Texas ($9.6 billion), Florida ($5 billion), Georgia ($2.9 billion), Virginia ($2.8 billion) and North Carolina ($2.6 billion). The citizens of those states will continue to "bear a significant share of the overall cost of the expansion through federal tax payments," the report says, while they will "not enjoy any of the benefits."