DQ2W6 Medicaid Expansion Assignment

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) encouraged states to expand their eligibility for Medicaid by providing government subsidies to those states that participated. The subsidies awarded were for the first few years of Medicaid expansion.

1. Explain this process of Medicaid expansion as a result of the ACA.

2. Identify those states that did not expand their Medicaid programs.

Choose one state and provide an explanation of why they did not expand their Medicaid program with your opinion as to whether you agree with the state’s decision. Defend your position.

Justify your answers with research and reasoning.

Directions to student:

You must complete this discussion in (no less than 750 words) into three substantive paragraphs 250 words each. Make sure you address the subject topic within the context of the COVID-19. Make sure you include at least four APA-formatted citations/references.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.