The administration
announced on Friday that Medicaid enrollments have increased by 6.7 million people since last October, when the expansion enrollments began.
The figures, which include state Medicaid plans that existed before Obamacare and the Children's Health Insurance Program, show enrollment climbing by 920,000 people during May, the latest month for which data is available. All told, new enrollments are up 11.4 percent since last October's Obamacare rollout. […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did not break out the number of people enrolled in states that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which makes benefits available to most low-income people with annual earnings of up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
But CMS said enrollment in Medicaid programs have risen 17 percent in 25 states and the District of Columbia, which have expanded Medicaid. New enrollments were only 3 percent higher in states that have not.
Charles Gaba's
research pegs Medicaid and CHIP enrollments since October at between 7.1 and 9.9 million. The discrepancy, Gaba
explains, is likely in the fact that CMS is reporting numbers through May, and there were 2.9 million pending Medicaid/CHIP enrollment applications at the end of June.
That's a lot of people in need finally getting assistance, but there's still a population of 5 million left out thanks to the Republican refusal to help them by expanding Medicaid in their states.