West Virginia MetroNews – West Virginia needs to send a message to the federal government about the possibility of cuts to Medicaid expansion coverage, the deputy speaker of the House of Delegates said.
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If federal officials cut the amount West Virginia is reimbursed for the healthcare expenses of its Medicaid expansion population below the current 90% level, delegates are preparing a refusal in state law to assure the state would not fill the gap.
“This is kind of a preemptive thing to send a message to Washington that hopefully they’ll hear loud and clear that we don’t want this to go below the 90% and if it does, we will have to take steps to deal with it,” Delegate Matthew Rohrbach, R-Cabell, said on MetroNews “Talkline.”
