Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120628:19:36:00
Chose to be in medicaid, but they can set the eligibility limit, so one state could say you're eligible below 50% of the qeñline, other states 100% of the poverty line, there's a lot of variation, and the government shares in the cost,, the new law says that everybody will be covered cut huff is $31,000. the difference is 100% federal dollars for three years and then it falls to 90% federal dollars so it averages out to the new people it's federal. the state can stay out of that expansion. they can keep their medicaid program and not participate in the expansion if they choose to do that. >> ...