14 states have refused to expand Medicaid eligibility, including Missouri and Kansas. With millions losing their jobs and their employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many Missourians and Kansans will be left uninsured. 1/
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@stlouisfed projects it could even reach 30% - 227,000 Missourians and 105,000 Kansans will become uninsured, per@urbaninstitute 4/Afficher cette discussion -
Those newly uninsured people are less likely to seek needed medical care. And to make things worse, rural hospitals in both Missouri and Kansas have closed in part because of the failure to expand Medicaid 5/
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In short, 10 years after the enactment of Obamacare, thousands of residents of states like Missouri and Kansas that didn’t expand Medicaid are looking at financial and medical catastrophe 6/
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