States Refusing Medicaid Leaving Over 250,000 Poor Veterans Uninsured

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http://www.vox.com/2014/5/21/5738512/states-that-refuse-medicaid-are-leaving-over-250000-poor-veterans

Many assume that all of the nation's veterans are entitled to health care through the Veteran's Administration, but that's not the case; a veteran must have served for two continuous years or the full period for which they were called to active duty in order to be eligible. There are some exceptions — like for individuals who were discharged for a disability sustained in the line of duty — but about 1.3 million veterans remain uninsured nationwide.

According to a report by Pew using analysis from the Urban Institute, approximately 258,600 of those veterans are living below the poverty line in states refusing to expand Medicaid. Without veteran's benefits — and with incomes too low to qualify for subsidies to use on the state exchanges — these veterans are left without affordable coverage options.

Twenty states are staunchly refusing to expand the program, and a few are still debating the issue.

Check out the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation further down in the link.

http://www.rwjf.org/en.html?cid=xcb_homepage_vox

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1. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants.html#q/maptype/grants/ll/37.91,-96.38/z/4

http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants.html#q/maptype/grants/ll/32.811,-97.061/z/10
Just keep clicking on links and read about each grant at the bottom of the page. Example in second link are three grants at work in the Dallas Forth Worth Metro area.