Millions Fall Through Medicaid-Obamacare Coverage Gap

NEWSMAX: Millions of Americans who lives in states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage in conjunction with the Affordable Health Care Act, earn too little to purchase federally subsidized private insurance yet don’t qualify for state Medicaid coverage, The Wall Street Journal reported…

Obamacare was supposed to cover working poor people like Maiden by expanding Medicaid. But Alabama, along with 23 other Republican-led states, begged off Medicaid expansion. The Supreme Court struck down the law’s requirement that states had to expand their Medicaid coverage.

This leaves people who earn too little to qualify for federal help buying coverage and too much to qualify under Alabama’s Medicaid program without medical insurance… (more)

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