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The Medicaid Coverage Gap: State Fact Sheets

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Over 2.1 million uninsured adults with low incomes are in the Medicaid coverage gap – too poor to qualify for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace assistance because they have incomes below the poverty line, yet ineligible for Medicaid because their state hasn’t enacted ACA Medicaid expansion. Closing the coverage gap would increase health insurance coverage, reduce racial health disparities, and improve health care access, health outcomes, and financial security.

These state fact sheets provide some basic facts about adults in the coverage gap in each state that hasn’t adopted Medicaid expansion.

 

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