An election Saturday in Louisiana for the state's governorship could thwart Republican efforts to curtail the expansion of Medicaid health benefits under the Affordable Care Act
that have expanded Medicaid thanks to generous federal funding under the Affordable Care Act. From 2014 through 2016, the ACA’s Medicaid expansion population was funded 100% with federal dollars. The federal government still picks up 90% or more of Medicaid expansion through 2020, but it’s a better deal than before the ACA, when Medicaid programs were funded via a much less generous split between state and federal tax dollars.
Such expansion has been a boon to doctors, hospitals and health insurers like Anthem, Centene, UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health’s Aetna health insurance unit given these private insurers generally administer most Medicaid benefits in the U.S.
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