Health Care Reform and the State Budget: Savings Likely to Fully or Partly Offset Modest New Costs
This Oklahoma Policy Institute issue brief looks at the expected impact of the Affordable Care Act on the state's budget. Key findings include:
- Most studies of the impact of the Affordable Care Act have concluded that increases to state Medicaid budgets will be modest.
- Some studies have concluded that overall state spending will decrease as a result of the new law.
- Experts at the Urban Institute and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority project that Oklahoma Medicaid costs will increase between $212 and $789 million in the coming years.
