More than 600,000 veterans will go without health insurance next
year unless 19 states stop holding out against expanding Medicaid,
researchers said Wednesday.
Even with Medicaid expansion, hundreds of
thousands of vets are going to go without a way to pay for medical care,
the report from the left-leaning Urban Institute finds.
But 327,000 of those who will go without health
insurance live in the 19 states -- all with Republican governors -- that
have not expanded Medicaid, the researchers said.
It finds more than 120,000 of these fall into
the so-called "Medicaid gap" — they are not poor enough to qualify for
Medicaid, but they make too much money to qualify for federal subsidies
to buy health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.
And they don't all get or qualify for care by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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