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Medicaid Expansion – Are You In or Are You Out?

Understanding the Economic Impact of Medicaid Expansion

Date/Time
August 14, 2012 - August 16, 2012
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm


As signed into law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) expanded Medicaid to cover nearly 17 of the 32 million who stood to gain coverage.  On June 28th, the Supreme Court ruled that states are no longer required to expand Medicaid coverage, allowing a state to opt-out of the expansion without a penalty. 

So what is each state going to do?  There are many factors weighing on the decision, with the economic impact being one of the heaviest.  Join us as we discuss how to incorporate economic modeling to determine the net impacts on jobs, GDP and state budgets from both expanding coverage and finding money to pay for it.  We will present a framework for how states can begin to develop substantive information to support a decision that is in their best interest. 

Key topics of this presentation will include:

  • Modeling increases in healthcare expenditures both from mandate and from expanded coverage;
  • Modeling options to pay for increased coverage through expenditure or revenue changes; and
  • Evaluation of net fiscal and jobs impact.

We will offer this presentation twice:

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