current policy: medicaid expansion - public policy in health care presentation
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Current Policy Part IIIMedicaid Expansion Policy
Team BDenise Clemente, Todd Harris.
Ashley Phipps, & Jennifer ReynoldsHCS/455
Stephen GregorieOctober 20, 2014
Presentation Overview
Politics
Health Care Spending
Affordable Care Act
Inequitable Health Care
Promoting Better Outcomes
Understanding the Medicaid Expansion
Exploring Rationale Behind Public Policy
Reduces the rate of Uninsured
Why Expand Medicaid?
Understanding Health Care Costs
“The PPACA Medicaid Expansion provides states with additional federal funding to expand their Medicaid programs to cover adults under 65 with income up to 133% of the federal poverty level. (Because of the way this is calculated, it’s effectively 138% of the federal poverty level.) Children (18 and under) are eligible up to that income level or higher in all states”
(Health Care.gov, Medicaid Expansion, para. 1, 2014)
Medicaid Expansion: Facts & Misconceptions
Despite Misconception, Medicaid ExpansionProvides both Comprehensive & DiverseEconomic & Social Benefit to the US Population.
Texas is ONLY one of 26 states to refuse PPACA Medicaid Expansion funding. Texas is also the state with the highest population of uninsured residents in the US.
Medicaid Expansion Refusal
Opportunities ChallengesIncreased Access to Health Care Debate over Funding
Equality in Health Care Future Costs still projecting to rise.
Reduction in Bankruptcies $1.3 Trillion in Spending over the next Decade.
Reduction of Bad Debt and Undercompensated Care budgets
State Refusal to Participate
Improve the Delivery of Health Care in the US.
Doesn’t Fill all Coverage Gaps
Medicaid Expansion Associated
CONCLUSION
Video Files
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Reference
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