“The momentum was with Medicaid this week: Nebraska is very close (pending a court decision) to putting Medicaid expansion on the ballot in November, and Maine’s highest court ruled that the state should finally expand Medicaid, as the citizenry voted to do last year.
And a new report out of Ohio, documenting the first five years of expanded Medicaid in the Buckeye State, gave us a clear picture of the stakes in these debates. The Ohio report is a rigorously collected and extensive data set on what happens in a state when it expands Medicaid with no frills (i.e., without a work requirement) and lets the program work its will for a few years.
As is our preference here at Vox, we can walk through the findings with the help of some handy charts.”
Read more at: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/24/17779338/voxcare-medicaid-expansion-success-charts
Source: Vox.com – August 24, 2018