You have to understand that they are counting the medicaid enrollees as Obamacare enrollees.
The average wage in much of WA is just over 550,000/yr, and the cap on Medicaid is $63,000. So, that should tell you what a mess we have in WA State.
On top of that, every person who was on Medicaid when Obamacare started, had to sign up again, as an Obamacare enrollee. So, they really played with the numbers and someone is going to have to pay for all those new Medicaid patients once the federal funds run out.
So, does that mean that the state isn’t paying for any Medicaid patients, that the feds are paying for all of WA Medicaid? There isn’t much clarity to all this.
The “old” Medicaid, where costs are split roughly 50-50 between the states and the Feds.
And, “ObamaCare” Medicaid, which significantly expands the number of people eligible, and, where costs are split 10%-90% between states and the Feds.
The “old” Medicaid is not going away.
The states will stay have to pay 50-50 on ALL their "old" Medicaid policies.
However, there are millions of people, perhaps even tens of millions, who were always eligible for the “old” Medicaid, but they never applied.
If that group of people now applies, the states will have to pay 50% of those costs, too.
That is the reason many states refused to set up their own exchanges.
They could be on the hook for billions of dollars of unfunded “old” Medicaid costs.