Health Reform's Medicaid Expansion

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This page brings together resources to help advocates analyze projections of the fiscal impact of the Medicaid expansion for their states, as well as additional materials to help make the case for expanding Medicaid.  We hope these materials are useful in your work with other groups, coalition partners, state officials, and the media.

Resources from the Center

• Approved Demonstrations Offer Lessons for States Seeking to Expand Medicaid Through Waivers
• CBO Finds Health Reform’s Medicaid Expansion Is an Even Better Deal for States
• Guidance on Analyzing and Estimating the Cost of Expanding Medicaid
• Status of the ACA Medicaid Expansion in States
• Expanding Coverage for Parents Helps Children (with Georgetown Center for Children and Families)
• How Health Reform’s Medicaid Expansion Will Impact State Budgets
• Why a State's Health Insurers Should Support Expanding Medicaid
  • Key points on the impact on insurers
  • Summary of the American Academy of Actuaries' brief on the impact on private premiums
• Medicaid Expansion in Health Reform Not Likely to “Crowd Out” Private Insurance

Fact Sheets on How the Medicaid Expansion Will Affect Certain Populations

• Rural America Will Benefit from Medicaid Expansion
• Expanding Medicaid Will Benefit Both Low-Income Women and Their Babies
• If Low-Income Adults Are To Gain Health Coverage, States Must Expand Medicaid
• Half of Uninsured Veterans Would Gain Health Coverage Through Medicaid
• Medicaid Will Improve Outcomes, Lower Costs for People with HIV
• Medicaid Expansion Could Cut Native Americans’ Uninsurance Rate by Half

Communications Resources

The Center has put together talking points and memos that will assist in effectively communicating to the press and other interested parties the importance of the Medicaid expansion.

For these materials and other communications assistance, contact Shannon Spillane at [email protected].

The Center’s health experts are also on Twitter!  Follow Vice President for Health Policy Judy Solomon (@JudyCBPP) and Vice President for Communications Shannon Spillane (@ShannonCBPP) for news and updates on the Medicaid Expansion and the Affordable Care Act.

Related Blog Posts

• State Medicaid Spending Growing Slower in Expansion States Than Others
• Coverage Gap Widening Between Medicaid Expansion States and Others
• Hospitals Benefiting From Medicaid Expansion, Report Finds
• Medicaid Expansion Decisions Leading States Down Divergent Paths
• History Rebuts Claim That Federal Medicaid Matching Rates Are Unstable
• The Federal Financial Commitment to the Medicaid Expansion Stands
• The Growing State Cost of Not Expanding Medicaid
• States Can Reduce Kids’ Uninsured Rate Further by Expanding Medicaid
• Medicaid Coverage Doesn’t Discourage Employment, New Study Shows
• States’ Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid Leaving Low-Income Adults in a Coverage Gap

Resources from State Advocates

• Rural Georgians Stand to Benefit Most from Medicaid Expansion, from the Georgia Budget and Policy Center
• Medicaid Expansion: A Good Deal for Indian Country, from the Montana Budget and Policy Center
• Thousands of Kentucky Veterans Could Get Health Insurance Under Medicaid Expansion, from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
• How Medicaid Works: A Chartbook for Understanding Virginia’s Medicaid Insurance and the Opportunity to Improve It, from the Commonwealth Institute of Virginia and the Virginia Poverty Law Center
• Medicaid Expansion: An Opportunity to Invest in Louisiana’s Workforce, from the Louisiana Budget Project

Other Resources on the Medicaid Expansion

• The National Women's Law Center's Mind the Gap: Low-Income Women in Dire Need of Health Insurance
• The Commonwealth Fund on How States Stand to Gain or Lose Federal Funds by Opting In or Out of the Medicaid Expansion
• The Urban Institute on The Cost and Coverage Implications of the ACA Medicaid Expansion: National and State-by-State Analysis
• The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured on Medicaid Expansion Through Marketplace Premium Assistance
• The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured’s Getting into Gear for 2014: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP
• The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured on the Early Impacts of the Medicaid Expansion for the Homeless Population
• The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured on Implementing the ACA: Medicaid Spending & Enrollment Growth for FY 2014 and FY 2015