Medicaid expansion is not a new idea. In the early 2000s, a handful of states including Arizona, Maine, Oregon, and Delaware expanded Medicaid eligibility to virtually the same population that ObamaCare seeks to include in its Medicaid expansion. The results of these policy experiments speak for themselves: higher than expected enrollments and cost, higher uncompensated care expenditures, and no change in the uninsured rate.

The following slides use information compiled from a recent report by the Foundation for Government Accountability entitled, “Medicaid Expansion: We Already Know How the Story Ends.” 

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