Foundation for Government Accountability: Faulty Data Led to Underestimations of Medicaid Expansion Enrollment, New Study Finds
A combination of bad data and bad assumptions about key eligibility factors led states to grossly underestimate just how many able-bodied adults would become eligible under ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, a new
The study shows that states relied on
Census data significantly undercounts the number of people with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty level for purposes of determining Medicaid eligibility. As a result, the actual number of able-bodied adults made eligible for Medicaid expansion could be more than 72 percent higher than Census data suggests. Medicaid expansion is already more than double what states projected.
"States used bad data and poor assumptions to justify expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults, despite Medicaid programs already being pushed to their limits. Now, with more able-bodied adults enrolled than states ever even expected to be eligible, they're paying the price with cost overruns and threatening resources for the truly needy," said
The full paper can be read here(https://thefga.org/research/bad-data-obamacare-enrollment/).
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