CNN Money interviewed Manatt’s Jocelyn Guyer, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about why Republican governors are resisting ACA repeal. Several GOP governors met with the Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 19 to discuss the future of Medicaid and the ACA.
In their letters to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, none of the state chief executives call for eliminating Medicaid expansion, and some who lead states that have expanded Medicaid acknowledge its importance, said Guyer.
According to CNN Money, Medicaid expansion has meant even more money for participating states since the program began in 2014. The federal government, which covered 100% of the cost of newly eligible adults for the first three years and is slowly tapering that reimbursement to 90%, pumped an additional $72.6 billion into the expansion states last year.
“It's gotten baked into the state budgets,” said Guyer.
Read the article here.