{"content":[{"text":"The Medicaid Saves Lives Act \n Introduced by U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Tammy Baldwin \n (D-WI) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA)","bbox":{"left":0.067255,"top":0.0183,"width":0.865438,"height":0.079546}},{"text":"THE PROBLEM \n While the American Rescue Plan Act offered the 12 states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act \n robust financial incentives to finally expand their state Medicaid programs, it has become increasingly clear that many of \n these states do not plan to expand. This means 4.4 million Americans with low incomes will continue to be denied health \n coverage as communities across the nation are still working hard to turn the corner on a once-in-a-century pandemic.","bbox":{"left":0.058805,"top":0.110589,"width":0.877707,"height":0.08029399999999999}},{"text":"Additionally, across these 12 states, the Americans who are most harmed by this inaction from state leaders are people of \n color: 60 percent of people in the coverage gap are Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Pacific Islander. Additionally, many of the \n people in the coverage gap live in the South where many state governments have failed to provide basic health coverage \n for their residents. Currently there are an estimated 275,000 Georgians, 47% of whom are Black, 9% of whom are \n Latino, and 63% are working families, in the coverage gap. This does not include tens of thousands of Georgians who \n currently are enrolled in—and paying for—marketplace plans created by the Affordable Care Act when they could be \n eligible for free Medicaid coverage.","bbox":{"left":0.058787,"top":0.207409,"width":0.874928,"height":0.11117299999999997}},{"text":"We cannot continue to allow Americans with low incomes to suffer any longer just because they live in a state that has \n refused to expand Medicaid for political reasons at the cost of residents’ health and taxpayer dollars.","bbox":{"left":0.058787,"top":0.335108,"width":0.854394,"height":0.03134199999999998}},{"text":"THE SOLUTION: Medicaid Saves Lives Act \n Introduced by U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael, alongside U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Jon Ossoff—all the \n Democratic senators representing states that have refused to expand Medicaid—the Medicaid Saves Lives Act is a \n foundational bill that would create a federal Medicaid-style program for those living in non-expansion states like Georgia \n and Wisconsin.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.384983,"width":0.873504,"height":0.08029399999999998}},{"text":"The Medicaid Saves Lives Act would: \n • Create a federal Medicaid look-alike program that is run and administered by the Centers for Medicare and \n Medicaid Services (CMS), and would provide the same full benefits of Medicaid; and","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.481803,"width":0.8468629999999999,"height":0.04830600000000007}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.088245,"top":0.546102,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.01707700000000001}},{"text":"Add to the incentives in the American Rescue Plan Act by giving states additional and extended funding to \n expand Medicaid through a significant federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) increase.","bbox":{"left":0.117649,"top":0.547695,"width":0.788639,"height":0.03134199999999998}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.088227,"top":0.595029,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.01707700000000001}},{"text":"Importantly, since Congress already paid for Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act, the federal Medicaid \n program in the Medicaid Saves Lives Act has already been funded once and should require no additional offsets.","bbox":{"left":0.117649,"top":0.596622,"width":0.8231350000000001,"height":0.03134200000000009}},{"text":"Congress must pass the Medicaid Saves Lives Act to right away because this legislation would: \n • Increase free and affordable health coverage to millions of Americans; \n • Expand access to health care and provide access to preventative health services; \n • Improve health outcomes and prevent premature deaths; \n • Reduce uncompensated care costs which would reduce the number of hospital and provider closures; and \n • Improve economic mobility that would enable low-income individuals to work.","bbox":{"left":0.058841,"top":0.64449,"width":0.815885,"height":0.100306}},{"text":"This program created in the Medicaid Saves Lives Act would also include the robust Medicaid benefits provided under the \n Affordable Care Act such as: \n • All essential health benefits; \n • Non-emergency medical transportation; \n • Prescription drug benefits; \n • Coverage for rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers; \n • Preventative services; \n • Maternity and newborn care; \n • Mental health and substance use disorder care; and \n • Hospitalization services.","bbox":{"left":0.058859,"top":0.761121,"width":0.881742,"height":0.16725599999999996}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}