The time for states to decide whether they will expand their Medicaid programs in accordance with the Affordable Care Act is fast approaching.
With the Medicaid expansion due to begin in 2014, thirteen states seem likely to opt out, 14 appear ready to expand, and the rest are still on the fence.
Among the major concerns of states still deciding are the cost of expansion and their concern that the federal government, currently scheduled to assume almost all of the cost of expansion, may at some point decide to shift more of expansion’s costs to state governments.
Pennsylvania is among the undecided states, but comments in recent months by Governor Corbett suggest that he is leaning against Medicaid expansion in the commonwealth.  The Safety-Net Association of Pennsylvania (SNAP) supports that expansion.
Read more about the deliberations taking place in state capitals across the country, and the questions with which elected officials are wrestling, in this Washington Post article.