Medicaid coverage gap
In the United States, the Medicaid coverage gap refers to the group of uninsured people (in states that have opted out of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)) who are both ineligible for Medicaid under its previous rules, which still apply in these states, and too poor to quality for the ACA's subsidies and credits that were designed to allow middle-class Americans to purchase health insurance. The number of Americans in this gap has been estimated to be almost 3 million as of January 2016.[1] In states that have not expanded Medicaid, eligibility requirements for Medicaid are limited to parents making 44% or less of the poverty line, and in almost all such states, all adults without children are ineligible. The coverage gap results from this and a number of factors, such as the fact that the ACA[2] On November 1, 2015, an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver dedicated its main segment to discussing the Medicaid coverage gap.[3]
References
- ^ Gunn, Dwyer (26 January 2016). "The Medicaid Coverage Gap Persists". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Garfield, Rachel (21 January 2016). "The Coverage Gap: Uninsured Poor Adults in States that Do Not Expand Medicaid – An Update". Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Bradley, Laura (2 November 2015). "John Oliver Explains How Medicaid Is Like Gym Shorts". Slate. Retrieved 7 March 2016.