Legislative refusal driven by politics could be significant obstacle (DES MOINES) A newly released report by the Iowa Department of Human Services found that an expansion of Medicaid would reduce costs to Iowa taxpayers and individual consumers. “The administration’s findings about expanded Medicaid are great news for the health care and pocketbooks of Iowans,” Senator [...]
(DES MOINES) Expanding Medicaid coverage to nearly 80,000 additional Iowans will lower health care costs for all Iowans, the physician director of primary care services for Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines said Monday.
July 9, 2012: Senator Hatch gives a news conference surrounding the state-level benefits of expanding Medicaid per the Affordable Care Act.
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At a statehouse news conference, Iowa legislators discussed why they are among more than 500 state legislators from all 50 states who have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the constitutionality of the health law, arguing that “the minimum coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act is a valid exercise of Congress’s Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause powers.”
