The “old” Medicaid, where costs are split roughly 50-50 between the states and the Feds.
And, “ObamaCare” Medicaid, which significantly expands the number of people eligible, and, where costs are split 10%-90% between states and the Feds.
The “old” Medicaid is not going away.
The states will stay have to pay 50-50 on ALL their "old" Medicaid policies.
However, there are millions of people, perhaps even tens of millions, who were always eligible for the “old” Medicaid, but they never applied.
If that group of people now applies, the states will have to pay 50% of those costs, too.
That is the reason many states refused to set up their own exchanges.
They could be on the hook for billions of dollars of unfunded “old” Medicaid costs.
Are those who were eligible for the old medicaid but never signed up for anything going to be put on that program even if they think they are signing up for the new Mack Daddy freebie? It sounds like a shell game, or bait and switch. I'm not following how this works.
(But then, neither are most of the people writing the laws, it seems)
The old Medicaid eligible who never applied are not applying now, either. Of course that doesn’t mean that the someone at the state didn’t apply for them.
If the old Medicaid is still the same, why do the feds have to pay any of it and what is the difference between the old Medicaid and the new Medicaid, they are both free. WA now has a welfare society and Inslee is about to raise the minimum wage again, to go along with it. Why did all the old Medicaid people have to sign up again on-line?
The last that I read this was a big disaster because a good number of the real Medicaid recipients don’t have computers and don’t read the news.