You would expect fewer people to be on Medicaid with a growing economy even after a decade of hectoring people to sign up government run health care...but people actually leaving an entitlement especially when liberals are trying to override a presidential of SCHIP expansion to cover people making $83k with billions in assets....
So unfair.
Which explains why the Kaiser folks are getting a bit nervous about the latest data showing a decline in Medicaid enrollment and translated into some, uh, confused explanations for the drop in program participation...
"Enrollment in Medicaid declined for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a new 50-state survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU). But faced with an improving economy, 42 states expect to expand coverage to the uninsured in the next year.
The survey reports a 0.5 percent enrollment decline in fiscal year (FY) 2007 driven primarily by two factors. States reported that the new documentation requirements were causing significant delays in processing applications, affecting mostly individuals already eligible for the program. State officials also cited the good economy and lower unemployment for reducing enrollment."
Yeah, those new documentation requirements. That explains it. Never had paperwork in the Medicaid program before.
And how do you expand coverage to the uninsured when a good economy reduces unemployment and enrollment?
http://www.kff.org
So unfair.
Which explains why the Kaiser folks are getting a bit nervous about the latest data showing a decline in Medicaid enrollment and translated into some, uh, confused explanations for the drop in program participation...
"Enrollment in Medicaid declined for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a new 50-state survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU). But faced with an improving economy, 42 states expect to expand coverage to the uninsured in the next year.
The survey reports a 0.5 percent enrollment decline in fiscal year (FY) 2007 driven primarily by two factors. States reported that the new documentation requirements were causing significant delays in processing applications, affecting mostly individuals already eligible for the program. State officials also cited the good economy and lower unemployment for reducing enrollment."
Yeah, those new documentation requirements. That explains it. Never had paperwork in the Medicaid program before.
And how do you expand coverage to the uninsured when a good economy reduces unemployment and enrollment?
http://www.kff.org
