El 1 de abril de 2015, el Dr. Allan Jenkins, profesor de Economía de la Universidad de Nebraska en Kearney, y el Dr. Ron Konecny, profesor de Administración de la misma universidad, publicaron el informe «Expansión de Medicaid en Nebraska: Protegiendo una infraestructura crítica, apoyando a las pequeñas empresas y mejorando la salud y la productividad de los trabajadores» (en adelante, el «Informe UNK»). El Informe UNK es un análisis exhaustivo de costo-beneficio de varios factores que deben considerarse en el debate sobre la Ley LB 472, la Ley de Rediseño de Medicaid, y la expansión de Medicaid en Nebraska.
This brief is part of a series to examine findings of the UNK Report, their implication on LB 472, and their significance to rural Nebraska. It examines basic economic and income issues for all Nebraskans connected to expanding Medicaid.
Principales conclusiones
- Evidence shows that states that have expanded Medicaid have witnessed substantially faster growth in healthcare jobs than those states that have not expanded.
- Medicaid expansion will support 10,779 jobs in Nebraska in FY 2019-20, according to a recent University of Nebraska at Kearney study (see Introduction below).
- Medicaid expansion is a significantly more cost-effective policy approach than non-expansion for employment creation. Each $46,572 increase in Medicaid spending creates one job – about 20 percent of the largest Nebraska Advantage Act cost per job figure.
- Benefits and receipts from Medicaid expansion in Nebraska will far outpace General Fund costs for Fiscal Year 2015-16 through Fiscal Year 2019-20.
- Medicaid expansion in Nebraska would bring about $69.3 million in General Fund savings for the 5-year period. Programs already funded through the state’s General Fund, would no longer be necessary if Medicaid were expanded.
