📣 Old 'n Busted: Medicaid/CHIP enrollment breaks 80 million. New Hotness: Medicaid/CHIP enrollment breaks 88 million? acasignups.net/21/06/23/old-n…
Back in January, @xpostfactoid noted that total Medicaid enrollment in the U.S. had likely broken 80 million people. xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2021/01/medica…
This was unofficially confirmed by @philgalewitz of @KHNews a couple of weeks ago...
khn.org/news/article/m…
khn.org/news/article/m…
...and was then *officially* confirmed by @CMSGov itself last week: cms.gov/newsroom/press…
...HOWEVER, the 80M figure doesn't include the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa & the Northern Mariana islands.
When you include them as well, the total goes up to around 82 million nationally...
When you include them as well, the total goes up to around 82 million nationally...
...and even more significantly, it *only runs through January*. Based on partial data from the various *state* health departments, I estimate that total Medicaid/CHIP enrollment *as of June 2021* is up to around *88 million*: acasignups.net/21/06/23/old-n…
It's even conceivable that the grand total has broken *90 million* if you stretch the definition to include those receiving *limited* benefits, as well as counting those who were enrolled at any point during the month instead of just the end of the month.
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