Medicaid Expansion

Expansion of Medicaid
Affordable Care Act was put in place by President Obama in 2010 providing Americans access to affordable health insurance. But, our gov. Nikki Haley, the Republican Party are still rejecting the Medicaid expansion for the state of South Carolina. My paper has detailed information on why governor Haley and Republicans made their decision to opt out of the expansion. Also, alternate approaches to expanding access to care and implement or consider the state’s decision of opting out of the expansion. Two contrast approaches for comparison will be provided initiative for Medicaid expansion. Finally, recommend to the state legislature to convey opting out of Medicaid expansion.
South Carolina without Medicaid Expansion
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There were changes made by the United States federal government make significant changes to the health care system. The expansion of Medicaid was more so for; lower-income, poor and children’s population. The reason for South Carolina to opt out of the Medicaid expansion because it will affect employers, a taxpayer, and the health industry due to increasing of federal funding that represents unambiguous benefits to South Carolina (SCHA, 2012). One of the challenges are increasing funding for the spending of new sources on the outside may not exist for South Carolina. The outside spending is a big economic component for growth, export, manufacturing, and national firm. Therefore, due to the increasing federal funding, South Carolina made the decision to opt out of Medicaid expansion (SCHA, 2012). This will increase federal funding in South Carolina choice to opt into Medicaid expansion to provide jobs and more income is the effect of the decision

The state opting out for certain provisions of Affordable Care Act that include a requirement of minimum coverage, employer contribution and coverage for a dependent adult up to insurance age of 26. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (2016), “The Affordable Care Act provides a variety of optional state funding grants to pay for or implementation of specific provisions of the ACA.”
The House Republicans passed Obama alternative budget for the Medicaid expansion for the state budget. This plan is put in place to help bring health care cost down in the form of government expenditure (SC Policy Council, 2013). These principals measure means:
1) The state will pay low-income hospital 35 million for non-emergency needs from ER and funded clinics
2) It will pay 10 million to the clinic for consequent