New Mexico studies expanding Medicaid with buy-in coverage
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico will study opportunities to provide Medicaid coverage through a fee to people who earn too much to qualify for the health care program for the poor, under an initiative approved by the state Legislature on Wednesday.
The Democrat-led state Senate voted 33-8 on Wednesday to commission a year-long study of possibilities for expanding health care coverage by allowing more people to buy into Medicaid.
The House approved the measure. Decisions about whether to proceed with a buy-in program would be left until next year, after Republican Gov. Susana Martinez leaves office.
The buy-in concept involves redirecting federal subsidies for coverage in the marketplaces created under former President Barack Obama's health care law to a new category of Medicaid.
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