Coverage for Working Poor Hangs in the Balance.....So do lives.

That was all supposed to change under the Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid far beyond its previous scope, to cover anyone making less than about 16 thousand dollars a year or 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
But in 2012 the Supreme Court said states could decide for themselves whether to take on that Medicaid expansion. Ohio’s Republican-led legislature has opposed expanded eligibility, while the Governor has gone head-to-head with his own party to stem the opposition.
“Thousands of our patients will not be able to apply for the Affordable Care Act or the Marketplace exchange,” says Gina McFarlane-El of Five Rivers Health Centers. About a third of the people she serves are uninsured, an estimated 6,000 this year, and most would apply. Statewide an estimated 275,000 new people would get covered next year alone if Medicaid does expand, and that number would more than double within ten years.  SOURCE

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