Report: 25,000 in Maine's health care 'coverage gap'
Around 25,000 uninsured, low-income Mainers will see few changes in their ability to purchase health insurance because the state did not expand Medicaid, according to a national study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Bangor Daily News reported the latest study tallies the number of people that earn too much money to qualify for existing Medicaid programs, but not enough to qualify for federal subsidies to buy private insurance on the new health exchanges.
The paper reported that health advocates are now facing the challenge of explaining to people that they may be too poor to qualify for federal subsidies.
Maine is in a group of 26 Republican-led states that opted not to expand its Medicaid program. In total, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that around 5.2 million people fall into what it calls the “coverage gap.”
Most Recent
Most Recent
Comments