The effects of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion is on full display in a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Spending on Medicaid increased nearly 14 percent in 2015, a result of the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that offered states extra funds to extend Medicaid to those with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
The spending increase matched the rise in enrollment to a decimal point. Enrollment in Medicaid rose on average by 13.8 percent across the country.
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