Obamacare Repeal Must Roll Back the Medicaid Expansion

Healthcare
Blog · January 19, 2017

This article was written by Ellen Weaver and Caleb Crosby, President of Alabama Policy Institute and was published in National Review on 1/19/2017. As the 115th Congress convenes and President-elect Trump prepares to take office tomorrow, our nation faces incredible challenges and opportunities. On health care in particular, the stakes couldn’t be higher, nor the path forward

Unwinding the Worst of Obamacare: Why Congress Must Rescind ACA’s Massive Medicaid Expansion

Healthcare
January 19, 2017

Executive Summary Given the focus on the disastrous launch of the Obamacare insurance Exchanges in 2013, many people don’t know that most of Obamacare’s coverage gains have come not through those Exchanges, but through a new expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied, working-age adults. Medicaid was originally intended to provide important safety net coverage to vulnerable