Medicaid Expansion - Maryland
July 2nd, 2009
| Categories: Assistance Programs, Editorial/Opinion, Health
| Tags: Enrollment, Health insurance coverage, Maryland, Medicaid
- State Medicaid coverage, costs grow, By Baltimore Sun: “A year into a new effort to expand health coverage, recession-weary Marylanders are flocking to the state’s Medicaid program in numbers far greater than expected, costing the state $50 million more in the process…”
- A healthy start, Editorial, July 2, 2009, Baltimore Sun: “At a time when some cash-strapped states are contemplating reducing Medicaid coverage, Maryland has boldly moved in the opposite direction. Today marks the first anniversary of a program that has brought taxpayer-financed medical assistance to more than 44,000 low-income parents, the vast majority of whom lacked health care before…”
