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Ouch. "If you make less than the poverty level and live in a state that refused to expand Medicaid, you’re pretty much out of luck."

Posted by ty97 Nov 12 '13, 06:43

"Because of an infuriating shortcoming in the law, you must pay full price on the exchanges."

Now I understand why the red state governors wouldn't expand Medicaid. Kinda evil (www.brookings.edu)

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Yes, that's been a well known hole in the law. - spamlet Nov 12, 07:01 7
- That's what they get for expecting reasonable governors I guess. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 07:06 6
  - It was a budgetary trick that's really going to hurt people. - spamlet Nov 12, 07:11 5
    - No, only 90% of it until the year 2020. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 07:54 4
      - Which is three years after Medicaid is projected to go broke... -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 08:05 3
        
        Like Social Security, it's on a bad trajectory, but "broke" isn't quite right. If nothing changes, they'll have funds to partially - Qale Nov 12, 08:22
        
        that's medicare, not medicaid. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 08:20 1
        
        oh, right. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 08:22
awesome: That answer was too long, so I didn’t read it. Can you just show me some cartoons instead? -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Nov 12, 06:52
i thought you're supposed to be able to buy insurance in other states now..? -- nm - colin Nov 12, 06:50 3
- Not sure what you mean? 14 states built their own exchanges, the other 36 use the (broken) federal healthcare.gov exchange -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 06:53 2
  - i am recalling that one of the new benefits was that you could take your insurance across state lines, etc.. i might be wrong. -- nm - colin Nov 12, 06:58 1
    - That was the alternative to the ACA pushed by the Republican Party. - Roger More Nov 12, 07:05
those folks will just not get insurance and pay the $95 extra in taxes - so (other than that) they are probably in the exact same boat they were in - decline Nov 12, 06:46 2
- which is total crap. -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 06:46 1
  - true -- nm - decline Nov 12, 06:49

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Ouch. "If you make less than the poverty level and live in a state that refused to expand Medicaid, you’re pretty much out of luck."

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