How the GOP health bills could make N.J. look like Alabama
The main reason:
Federal funding for Medicaid and subsidized private insurance sold on the ACA exchanges in
In
"While we already have one of the most expansive and generous Medicaid programs in the nation," Christie told the Legislature during his annual budget address, "expanding Medicaid will ensure
And they have. Both the state and nonprofit advocacy groups vigorously enrolled residents in the expanded Medicaid program and Obamacare's subsidized private insurance marketplace, exceeding average sign-ups elsewhere. Even before that,
All that extra money will go away if the repeal-and-replace proposals that have divided
Projected Health-Care Coverage by State in 2022
Under the Affordable Care Act (current law)
Under the Republican
SOURCE:
"The
And
Also, 5.4 percent of New Jerseyans in 2014 were undocumented immigrants, according to the
Adding to all this is that the
"When you lose [insurance], there is not that cushion to break the fall," said
Grady's projections found that
In
Back in the mid-1990s, a bipartisan coalition in
"It is very hard to replace that amount of money," said
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