Right, but what about the exchanges? If you have no job and try to sign up will they reject you?
Fucking Corbett. We have to get him out. If we get a Dem gov I hope he/she can issue executive orders to help low income folks with medicaid.
Sorry, I keep editing because I post before I finish what I want to say.
Everyone can buy from the exchanges and no one can be rejected.
The only question is whether you get subsidized.
If you would have qualified for the medicaid expansion but don't qualify for medicaid without it, you can still buy from the exchanges. The bad part is you won't qualify for subsidies. That means if you make say 90% of the poverty level, you will pay more than someone who makes 200% of the poverty level.
The working poor will get screwed and screwed hard. They can't afford HI and won't qualify for medicaid.
Of course, your own state can budget it to cover these people of their own choice (I highly doubt this happens) and I can't speak on behalf of Pa alone. But that is how I believe it will be.
Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong and please do so.
edit again: of course, these people will still use HI to an extent and it will cost more than giving them medicaid. That's the sad part about this. The states rejecting the expansion are basically telling its citizens to pay tax dollars for other states and then paying MORE for their own through inefficient governance. It's typical cutting your nose to spite your face.