Expansion of Medicaid could be put into action as soon as 2020
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"I don't think funding's a particularly big deal," Sen.
Nelson said he expects Medicaid expansion to take effect
Nelson said he would prefer that the initiate is funded through the General Fund rather than the
Nelson said the potential six-month delay in implementation, which is recommended by the
"We know we leave those people hanging for another six months, and we probably could get it started earlier, but there's clearly no will in the session to push it faster than that," Nelson said.
The first-term senator said he is "cautiously optimistic" that sideboards, or requirements, will not be placed on those who would get Medicaid via the expansion. He said requirements cost extra money and the federal government does not reimburse states for implementing those sideboards.
One of the requirements tossed around is those who qualify for the expansion would need to demonstrate that they are working.
"It's not a really productive thing to do a requirement like that," Nelson said. "It puts barriers to people getting served. It's expensive just to set up the bureaucracy to track that. It's not the
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"I think it's got to be as clean as possible," Goesling said.
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"The risk is if we don't have some funding source identified, we'll be cutting education," said
One potential roadblock to Medicaid expansion implementation is the
Nelson said the lawsuit appears to be on weak grounds and he expects it to be resolved fairly quickly.
"Once we get that behind us, I think we can move ahead," Goesling said.
Nelson said he does not expect the Legislature to vote on Medicaid expansion implementation until March.
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