States fully implementing Obamacare seeing bigger drop in rate of uninsurance
Well, no particular surprise here — anti-Obamacare states that have refused to expand Medicaid are falling behind in terms of cutting their rates of uninsurance. Gallup released information today isolating states based on whether they expanded Medicaid and whether they chose to run their own marketplace (Gallup counted states like Arkansas which opted for a federal-state partnership). The expansion is likely a much bigger difference maker than whether states ran their own marketplace or opted to let the feds do it for them. The expansion certainly been the key in Arkansas, where the private option version of Medicaid expansion has already provided coverage to more than 150,000 people (and counting).