Medicaid expansion would create jobs and economic benefits, study says
LINCOLN — Expanding Medicaid in Nebraska would create almost 11,000 jobs and generate $1.3 billion annually of new economic activity, according to results of a study released Monday.
In the study, economics professor Allan Jenkins and management professor Ron Konecny of the University of Nebraska at Kearney updated their cost-benefit analysis of Medicaid expansion from 2015.
Jenkins said the new analysis incorporated findings from the 33 states that have expanded their Medicaid programs since 2014.
But the conclusions remained virtually the same as before: Once the expansion is fully implemented, the new economic activity would yield $8.4 million more annually in state and local tax dollars than the state would have to spend.
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