AKLEG Day 28: Eliminating Medicaid expansion would save state $30 million, cost economy $556 million
Eliminating expansion would also boot more than 50,000 low-income Alaskans off coverage.
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41,000 Alaskans projected to lose coverage by 2027 under Graham-Cassidy
There’s not enough time to get a full report on the impacts of the bill from the CBO, but other groups are doing their best to understand how it’ll work.
Pair of ballot initiatives would enshrine Obamacare and Medicaid expansion in state law
The initiatives would preserve key parts of the Affordable Care Act in case they’re repealed.
Alaska’s Medicaid expansion could be in real trouble under the Senate health care bill
Alaska’s perilous finances could make Medicaid expansion unaffordable when the feds cut funding in 2021, but a policy change could spell doom in 2020.