Maine Wants to Roll Back Medicaid
The Supreme Court…ruled that the Medicaid expansion was an unconstitutional overreach of federal power and that states would have the option of deciding whether to participate.
That brings us to Maine. Top officials there think the Supreme Court ruling does even more than allow them to opt out of the Medicaid expansion. In their view, the Supreme Court allows them to drop hundreds of thousands of residents from their Medicaid rolls right away. They filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking permission to do just that.
The healthcare SC ruling is one of the most interesting rulings to come down in a long time. I’m still trying to figure out the logic behind the rulings.
Wow! Maine is the last place I would expect this? (Ok, maybe New York is the place — but Maine is close)
Three years of federal govt. footing the expanded Medicaid bill is not that bad, but can each state keep up with the cost after that?
This is going to cost Maine in the end.
Maine? Really?
Very interesting. I’m eager to see how this turns out.
Something similar:
Arizona’s waiver expired in 2011. HHS said “”Any reduction in eligibility associated with the expiration of your demonstration . . . would not constitute a (maintenance of effort) violation.”
Didn’t we just recently see Maine in the news as being a very sub-par place for healthcare anyway?
However you put this…
“Mr. LePage wants to eliminate Medicaid coverage for nearly 15,000 parents with incomes that fall between the federal poverty level ($23,050 for a family of four) and 133 percent of that level ($30,657 for a family of four). He is also planning to remove from the rolls about 6,150 19- and 20-year-olds with incomes up to 150 percent of the poverty level, and to tighten eligibility limits in programs that help elderly and disabled people pay for prescription drugs and health care.”
…it sounds so incredibly wrong.
Wasn’t Medicaid a program intended to provide health care to low-income families and the disabled/elderly in the first place? Yes it only seems fair to take it away from them now..
Desperate times call for desperate measures?