I think we sometimes get numb to these numbers.
If you're a parent in a family of three in Texas and make more than $3,733 PER YEAR, you make too much to be eligible for Medicaid.
If you're an adult without kids in Texas who isn't elderly or disabled, you're ineligible, period.
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Under the American Rescue Plan, an incentive for states to expand Medicaid means the dozen states that haven't expanded would actually make money for two years if they increased eligibility to 138% of the poverty level through the Affordable Care Act.
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I vividly remember being on a call with the LA Medicaid director after Hurricane Katrina and she said the Medicaid threshold for parents was 15 percent of poverty. A reporter tried to clarify - 50 percent? No, she replied, One-Five.
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In Alabama it's just *13* percent. In some ways that's even more cruel than not offering it to anyone at all.
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Florida's requirements are equally outrageous
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Are there policy alternatives being discussed for addressing these hug gaps in coverage besides the Biden-type public option and the recent FMAP incentives in ARPA? Are there discussions to use marketplace plans by lowering eligibility below 100% FPL, for example?
Insanity. Utter insanity.
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I've said those numbers out loud to people at the Medicaid plan I work for and they are usually shocked to hear them.
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