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PATRICK CALDWELL at Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/obamacare-was-on-the-ballot-yesterday-it-won-overwhelmingly/
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It turns out many Americans are big fans of Obamacare when they get a chance to vote on it. Voters in Oregon like Obamacare so much that they are willing to raise taxes to help pay for it.
On Tuesday, Oregonians overwhelmingly approved new taxes on hospitals and insurance companies, totaling $320 million, in order to fund Obamacares Medicaid expansion, which offers government-provided insurance to anyone making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line. The measure passed with more than 60 percent of the vote. (The state legislature had already approved the new taxes, but Republican politicians forced the measure onto the ballot before it could be finalized.)
While much of the Obamacare debate has focused on the individual marketplaces set up by the law, the expansion of Medicaid has actually done more to increase access to insurance. More than 11 million people have signed up for Medicaid under the expansion. And thats despite the fact that in 18 states, Republican governors and legislatures have blocked expansion. If the new Medicaid eligibility standards were applied across all 50 states, another 4.5 million people would be covered, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The federal government is responsible for most of the costs of Medicaid expansion. For the initial years, the feds paid 100 percent of the costs for those newly enrolled in Medicaid. That will eventually fall to 90 percent after 2020, with states responsible for the other 10 percent of funding. The new taxes approved in Oregon this week are intended to pay for the states share of the costs.
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(297,655 posts)bluestarone
(17,030 posts)this would be LOVED all over this country
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,701 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Pursuant to the ACA, in 2014 California expanded Medi-Cal to include adults without children, and it raised the qualifying income to 138% of the federal poverty level.
edited to add link: http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/Medi-CalExpansionInformation.aspx
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)the applies tax credit is that the amount you declare as your income and what these "savings" end up being are the same throughout the country. In CA the cost of living is HUGE and if I made what I do in many other states it would seem like a nice income when in fact it is poverty level in CA. It should be based on the cost of living in each area specifically and not a national amount applied to everyone equally.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Join the rest of the developed world, goddammit!!