Wasn’t the access to medical care through “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” specifically worded to NOT allow illegal “undocumented” aliens to benefit from its provisions? And are not a considerable part of the benefits distributed through Medicaid?
Is this yet more obfuscation about the application of Obamacare?
Or maybe there is no such thing as an “undocumented” alien resident, and that was all just a fiction propagated by the Republicans.
Guess who has to foot the bill? It will be the STATES! And why some states refused this “expansion.”
Here is an interesting site to browse - stats and warnings from the Kaiser Foundation [Nov. 12, 2014].
Don’t you know, they’re mostly dreaming about and wishing for the day that Single Payer is the law of the land.
............”Adults left in the coverage gap due to current state decisions not to expand Medicaid are spread across the states not expanding their Medicaid programs but are concentrated in states with the largest uninsured populations (Table 1). A quarter of people in the coverage gap reside in Texas, which has both a large uninsured population and very limited Medicaid eligibility (Figure 2). Seventeen percent live in Florida, nine percent North Carolina, and seven percent in Georgia. There are no uninsured adults in the coverage gap in Wisconsin because the state is providing Medicaid eligibility to adults up to the poverty level.”......
......If they remain uninsured, adults in the coverage gap are likely to face barriers to needed health services or, if they do require medical care, potentially serious financial consequences. Many are in fair or poor health or are in the age range when health problems start to arise, but lack of coverage may lead them to postpone needed care due to the cost. While the safety net of clinics and hospitals that has traditionally served the uninsured population will continue to be an important source of care for the remaining uninsured under the ACA, this system has been stretched in recent years due to increasing demand and limited resources.
Further, the racial and ethnic composition of the population that falls into the coverage gap indicates that state decisions not to expand their programs disproportionately affect people of color, particularly Black Americans. This disproportionate effect occurs because the racial and ethnic composition of states not expanding their Medicaid programs differs from the ones that are expanding. As a result, state decisions about whether to expand Medicaid have implications for efforts to address disparities in health coverage, access, and outcomes among people of color.
Last, the population in the coverage gap shows that, as a result of state decisions not to expand their Medicaid programs, many remaining uninsured under the ACA will reflect the legacy of the system linking Medicaid coverage to only certain categories of people. Many people who fall outside these categories—specifically men and adults without dependent children—still have a need for health coverage. The ACA Medicaid expansion was designed to end categorical eligibility for Medicaid, but in states not implementing the expansion, the vestiges of categorical eligibility will remain..............