The plan: Let the federal government run and administer a lookalike program.
Baldwin and Georgia's Democratic U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff introduced a bill Monday to provide health coverage to an additional 4 million Americans — including about 90,000 Wisconsinites — who live in states that did not fully expand Medicaid.
Under the ACA, known as Obamacare, 38 states have fully expanded Medicaid to low-income Americans.
According to a news release, the Medicaid Saves Lives Act would direct the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to create "a federal Medicaid look-alike program, which would provide the same full, essential benefits of Medicaid, but run and administered at the federal level."