Anyone else on Medicaid under the ACA expansion?

[kevink]

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else whose situation is at all similar to mine. My wife and I are frugal ER's living solely off of savings and have alternated between a highly-subsidized silver plan in years that bump our MAGI up above 138% of FPL and Medicaid.

Our experience in both Colorado, where we lived for a couple of years, and (especially!) in Arizona where we are now is that Medicaid, at least for childless adults like us, is essentially hospital-only coverage, since docs that take Medicaid are hard to find and the huge increase in the number of eligible patients hasn't been accompanied by any meaningful increase in funding for new providers.

It also seems pretty clear from what I'm reading that Medicaid expansion will be one of the first things elimiated under Trump and they can do it by reconciliation and just giving the states block grants.

Any thoughts on the lay of the land going forward appreciated!

[MichaelB]

There's already a discussion underway on changes to healthcare laws, here http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ml#post1799463

To avoid confusion let's have just one thread.

Edit to add - I copied the post and added it to the current thread.