Less Than $688 To Go!!
Just A Reminder
Please Don't Forget
To Donate To FR
This Quarter
Sponsoring FReepers are contributing
$10 Each time a New Monthly Donor signs up!
Get more bang for your FR buck!
Click Here To Sign Up Now!
Posted on 03/12/2019 2:56:01 PM PDT by spintreebob
The number of children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP — two government health plans for the poor — fell by nearly 600,000 in the first 11 months of 2018, a precipitous drop that has puzzled and alarmed many health policy analysts, while several states say it reflects the good news of an improving economy.
Enrollment in the two programs decreased by 599,000 children in the 48 states from which the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, has data from December 2017 to November 2018, the last month for which numbers are available. At the beginning of that period, Medicaid and CHIP enrolled nearly 36 million children in those states.
Missouri (8.1 percent), Idaho (6.7 percent) and Utah (6 percent) experienced the biggest percentage drops in children enrolled.
In total numbers, Texas rolls tumbled the most — by more than 134,000 children — followed by California with almost 130,000. Both states ascribed declining enrollment to strong economic growth. Texas also said that enrollment numbers the previous year, in 2017, had been particularly high because of extra steps the state took in the wake of Hurricane Harvey to ensure Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries were re-enrolled. The larger numbers that year contributed to the big drop in 2018, Texas officials said.
That kind of large drop in child enrollment is unusual in the history of Medicaid and CHIP.
(Excerpt) Read more at northwestgeorgianews.com ...
Watch the parasites...not those on CHPS but those assigning themselves to get grants to speak for the oppressed... watch the parasites insist on "expansion" because there are so many needy.
BTW Those of Mexican ancestry have the most uninsured.... the most eligible for CHPS who don't take it. They also have the lowest infant mortality and lowest maternal mortality rates in the US...and the longest longevity on the other end without taking Medicare or Medicaid to which the are "eligible".
I suppose many of them went on off CHPS when their parents got jobs with health insurance benefits.
No Dems would ever admit to this being the reason.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
