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Fold Medicaid and CHIP into UHP

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State Medicaid agency wind-down

Grants to states to redeploy or separate eligibility staff and decommission systems.

Result
$4.0B
Per resident, per year
$12
÷ 341.1M people
Per household
$30
÷ 132.2M households

How it's calculated

#StepArithmeticValue
1
Severance & retraining for state eligibility staff
30,000 × $40,000$1.2B
2
System decommissioning
50 × $36,000,000$1.8B
3
Data migration to UHA
$1B$1.0B
4
Total one-time cost
$4.0B

By year

Year 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year 6
$0.0B$0.5B$1.0B$1.0B$1.0B$0.5B$0.0B

Inputs used

InputKindValue
State eligibility staff separated or redeployedestimate, medium confidence30,000
Severance & retraining per staff memberestimate, medium confidence$40,000
State Medicaid systems run in paralleldata, high confidence50
Decommissioning cost per state systemestimate, medium confidence$36,000,000
Data migration to UHAestimate, medium confidence$1.0B
Trade-off: Mostly Years 2–4.