Top 5 Things to Expect from Obamacare in 2014

No. 3: Expansion of Medicaid

As originally intended, Obamacare should have been a means to expand insurance to citizens living under the poverty line. However, this particular point of the law remains more of an option, rather than an absolute requirement. Nonetheless, to date, the District of Columbia as well as 25 states have already approved or planning to approve the expansion of Medicaid, following the Obamacare model. But the expansion does no refer solely to an increase of the qualifying income level, but it also means that people who were previously shunned from the program will now be able to join it.