When Indiana expanded Medicaid, it had a small requirement that those on the highest tier of service for Medicaid contribute, even if a little bit, for their own care, an amount on a sliding scale from $1 to $100 a month.  But most people in the program refused to pay even that amount, resulting in their being booted to a lower level of benefits: More than half the low-income people who qualified for Indiana's alternative Medicaid program failed to make a required monthly payment for the top tier of benefits – a key feature of the program Vice President Mike Pence insisted on as a condition to expanding the health care program when he was Indiana's governor ... the state says only a small share of those who missed a payment ended up losing their health care for the state's required six-month lockout period. Most ended up in a lower tier of coverage with fewer benefits and some cost-sharing requirements. Recipients must pay between $1 to $100 a...(Read Full Post)