Opponents Recycling Falsities About Medicaid Expansion’s Impact on Seniors, People With Disabilities
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In an op-ed, for instance, the conservative
Medicaid gives states multiple ways to provide HCBS to seniors and people with disabilities, usually as an alternative to nursing home care. All states take one or more of these options, and they decide which HCBS to provide and how many people to serve. States can have waiting lists for HCBS, but not for Medicaid coverage; states must enroll all eligible beneficiaries, including children, seniors, people with disabilities, and other adults -- without exception.
Most states have had waiting lists for HCBS since before the ACA, and there's no connection between waiting lists and state expansion decisions. While
State officials from both parties and fact checkers have consistently shown that there's no connection between Medicaid expansion and waiting lists. For example,
The argument that expansion will force
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