Medicaid
is gradually becoming a favorable healthcare insurance option for
families under the Affordable Care Act. After years of coverage for
pregnant women, children, and persons with disabilities, the law
allowed eligibility for Medicaid for parents in the lower-income
bracket or single adults with no kids.
The
Medicaid expansion was one of the major provisions at stake in the
ACA cases decided by the Supreme Court in June 2012. The Supreme
Court upheld the Medicaid expansion, but limited the federal
government's ability to penalize states that don't comply. Therefore,
where it was originally mandatory for states to expand Medicaid, now
it’s effectively optional.
