Who Will Be Uninsured Under ObamaCare?
Distribution of 19 million uninsured adults:“Who Will Be Uninsured After Health Insurance Reform?
Source: Matthew Buettgens and Mark Hall, “Who Will Be Uninsured After Health Insurance Reform?” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
I notice that 3/4ths are not illegal aliens.
This analysis assumes that 7 to 8 million of the 10 to 13 million uninsured people who are Medicaid eligible but not enrolled will remain uninsured.
State officials worry about a “woodwork” effect, where people who were Medicaid eligible under the old rules will be swept up in outreach efforts when the individual mandate goes into effect in 2014. State Medicaid programs will have to pay the cost of covering those previously eligible under the old federal matching formula rather than the more generous expansion law.
That’s a lot of people.
Looks to me like the number of people who are going to be eligible but not enrolled in medicaid will be about where the number is today.
No doubt we’ll need an Obamacare Part II to solve this problem.