What Health Care Reform Means For the States

摘要

Of the 31 million uninsured people who would gain coverage under a revamped health system, about half would do so through a vast expansion of Medicaid-the state-and-federal health care program for the poor. The Senate bill would make eligible anyone earning up to 133% of the federal poverty level (for a family of four, an income of about $29,300 ayear); the House bill would lift that threshold to 150% of poverty (or about $33,000 for a family of four).