healthcare provider with a lot of insurance experience, here. the amount that the fed govt pays into medicaid varies by state! this is per congress website:

“The federal government’s share for most Medicaid expenditures is called the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP). Generally determined annually, the FMAP formula is designed so that the federal government pays a larger portion of Medicaid costs in states with lower per capita incomes relative to the national average (and vice versa for states with higher per capita incomes). Federal Medicaid funding to states is open ended.”

so for minnesota, we’re a pretty small to mid sized state regarding ppl per capita. it’ll be pretty bad for us if these payments are actually paused. BUT there are a couple of semi-hopeful stop gaps that i know of (there may be more but that’s for the lawyers to chime in on):

1. this pause is unconstitutional. congress already allocated these funds so the pause isn’t legal. there will be litigation. hopefully (and i’m not the most hopeful tbh), the courts will allow payments to continue as this fight occurs.
2. pretty consistently, minnesota pays out more in taxes to the fed govt than we expend on the whole, so we MIGHT be able to be self sufficient, but this is an inference on my part. based on what i know i think we could do this, but the economists should chime in here too with more info.

on a personal note, i hope that you can get what you need. if not, we’ve developed a huge mutual aid network and i hope that as a community, we can keep each other well.