Medicaid covers selected state residents whose income is less than 31 percent of the poverty level. But Obamacare’s subsidized insurance exchanges don’t extend to anyone below the poverty line. Sub-poverty individuals without children are not eligible for Medicaid in Virginia. And parents with family incomes between $7,300 and $23,550 fall into the uncovered gap. “Congress wrote the law that way,” said Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. It effectively tells Virginia: “Expand Medicaid or a big chunk of people will be out in the cold.”
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:51:13 +0000