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Virginia Republicans made a mistake when they tried to spin a recent report on Medicaid inefficiency as a reason to continue opposing Medicaid expansion. But they stand on firmer ground when they point with alarm to a recent spike in Medicaid costs.
Surging enrollment — 50,000 new enrollees in the past five months — will drive up the program’s cost to the commonwealth by just under $1 billion. That likely will squeeze out new spending on everything from education to state parks.
Officials are calling the enrollment surge the “woodwork effect,” as in “people coming out of the.” In other words, the new enrollees already were eligible for Medicaid; they just hadn’t signed up for it yet. Expanding Medicaid eligibility, as envisioned by the Affordable Care Act, would drive up state costs even further.
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~ Richmond Times-Dispatch
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