Expansion Eligibility and Cost Estimates for Non-Expansion States We calculate the number of people potentially eligible for Medicaid based on KFF 2019 estimates of the number of uninsured people who could be eligible for Medicaid if their state expanded plus estimates of people enrolled in Marketplace coverage who could become Medicaid eligible if their state…More| KFF
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 encourages non-expansion states to take up the expansion by providing an additional temporary fiscal incentive for states to newly implement the ACA Medicaid expansion. This brief provides illustrative estimates of the net fiscal benefit to states from these incentives relative to state costs under the expansion.| KFF