Protecting People with Preexisting Conditions Requires More Than a Piecemeal Approach: An Assessment of a Louisiana Bill to Codify Some, But Not All, ACA Protections
…the Medicaid expansion, which extended coverage to 465,000 Louisianans, as well as federal funding for premium subsides for private coverage (the ACA’s premium tax credits). Few, if any, states have the financial resources to offset the lost dollars on which these programs depend; for Louisiana alone, a win for the plaintiffs means a loss for the state of $3.6 billion…