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Tagged: the Affordable Care Act

Politics & Government
5:41 pm
Tue October 16, 2012

Expanding Medicaid would save Michigan $1 billion over10 years, study finds

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Michigan could save a billion dollars over 10 years by expanding Medicaid, according to a new study
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Over 10 years, Michigan could save a billion dollars and get more than 600,000 previously uninsured people health coverage.

That's the upside of expanding Medicaid in Michigan, according to a new study from the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT) in Ann Arbor. 

The federal government can't force states to expand their programs, but they are offering big incentives: for 10 years, the feds will pick up 100% of the costs of covering newly-eligible Medicaid patients, as part of the Affordable Care Act. 

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