Supreme Court Health Care Decision Leaves 3 Million More Uninsured

[CatWoman]

Health care reform will extend health insurance benefits to 3 million fewer people by 2022 as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in June that states could choose not to expand Medicaid for the poor, according to an analysis published by the Congressional Budget Office Tuesday.

Although the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's health care reform law and its individual mandate that nearly all Americans obtain some form of health care coverage, the justices also decided that states could decline to add people earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level -- $14,856 for a single person this year -- to their Medicaid rolls.

As a result, the CBO predicts six million fewer people will gain access to Medicaid, but about half of them will buy subsidized private health insurance through the "exchange" marketplaces established by the law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/supreme-court-health-care_n_1698873.html

[Jessy169]

2. Only if Repub governors make good on their bluster

Republican governors, including Rick Scott of Florida, Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, have already said they won't carry out the Medicaid expansion in their states.

If Republican governors don't carry out the Medicaid expansion, all of which as I understand it is reimbursed by the Federal Government, then don't blame Obama or the Affordable Care Act -- blame the heartless, ruthless Republican governors who are playing politics with peoples' lives.