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The 2026 federal poverty level (FPL) numbers will determine Medicaid and CHIP income eligibility in each state once states adopt the 2026 FPL (states typically switch between February and April) — unt...
Medicaid enrollment rose substantially after the Affordable Care Act (ACA), driven chiefly by the ACA’s Medicaid expansion in participating states and by outreach that signed up previously eligible ad...
Federal premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans are overwhelmingly a federal expense: enhanced ACA subsidies cost roughly $92 billion in 2023 and are estimated at $138 billion in...
Many states already expanded Medicaid under the ACA; 41 states (plus DC) had expanded by 2025 and individual state actions continue (KFF, NCSL reporting) . Major federal law changes in 2025 (the “One ...
CMS and independent analysts report that Medicaid covered roughly 71.4–71.5 million people in January 2025, about 21% of the U.S. population . National estimates of the racial/ethnic composition of Me...
Immigration status is a central determinant of Medicaid access: federal rules generally restrict full Medicaid and CHIP benefits to U.S. citizens and a set of “qualified” lawfully present immigrants, ...
Public reporting does not produce a single definitive roster of states that have filed 2026 Medicaid waiver or expansion proposals specifically changing eligibility for low‑income parents; authoritati...
Medicaid income eligibility is set by states as percentages of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL); in states that adopted the ACA Medicaid expansion, adults under 65 generally qualify up to 138% of the F...
Household size and geographic location materially change the dollar amounts tied to the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) that Medicaid programs use to set eligibility: , and states apply different percenta...
The ACA’s Medicaid “expansion” sets an effective eligibility threshold at 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL)—a statutory 133% plus a 5% income disregard—so most expansion states use the 138% cuto...
Enrollment shifts between 2014 and 2020 materially changed subsidy outlays across multiple public programs: in higher education the average subsidy per full‑time equivalent student rose from 2014–15 t...
Medicaid expansion states generally cover most adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL), while CHIP must cover children whose family income is above the Medicaid threshold but limited by s...
Official and expert sources show two different ways to answer “which states had the highest Medicaid spending per capita in 2022”: total state Medicaid dollars spent was largest in California, New Yor...