Modern Healthcare quoted Manatt’s Deborah Bachrach, a partner with Manatt Health, for an article about governors’ top concerns about ACA repeal.
In 2016, the 31 states that expanded Medicaid received $72 billion in extra federal dollars due to the expansion. “Those governors are finding that hundreds of thousands of additional people have come into coverage, and the financing is baked into their budgets,” said Deborah Bachrach, a partner at Manatt Health and former Medicaid director of New York. “After you pull out the funds, you are left with a budget hole.”
“All governors would like more flexibility,” Bachrach said. “But the concern that’s starting to emerge is, are the additional flexibilities worth the trade-off of fewer federal dollars?”
Read the article here.