They urged the president to support their efforts to move funds from other parts of the program into the pre-existing condition fund so it can continue to accept newenrollees.
Pence told reporters Wednesday that the only way he would approve a Medicaid expansion would be if the state is given the choice of using its Healthy Indiana Plan to cover newenrollees.
Colorado has closed its plan to newenrollees and is giving its 7, 800 current account holders until February to drop out and get back the amount they invested (with no appreciation in some cases) or remain on stingier terms: It will now cover tuition increases of up to only 5.5% a year.
Austin Frakt responds with what has now become a familiar refrain at his blog: He dismisses studies showing that Medicaid enrollees do worse than the uninsured, touts studies that show the reverse and claims that new Medicaid enrollees are going to get more care than otherwise.
Under the new regulations it actually makes sense for insurers to move high-risk enrollees as quickly as possible to get larger shares of the reinsurance funds.