Monterey, CA 3 Million Added To Medicaid Program Due To Health Care Reform
by Richard Kuehn on 04/05/14
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Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas,
Seaside And Soledad California
The
new health care reform laws have resulted in more than 3 million Americans
being added to the Medicaid
system, called Medi-Cal in California. The
number has grown from 58 million to 61 million since the law was implemented,
and will grow even further as data was missing from four states in the numbers
reported to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. California was one of the states that
expanded the Medi-Cal program and Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of the
Health and Human Services Department, noted that states that expanded the
program saw an increase of 8.3% in February compared with 1.6% for those that didn’t. The numbers are still high given that there
are only 317 million people in the U.S.
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