New Report Shows Enrollment Drop in Medicaid Among Low-Income Parents

OPEN MINDS On-Line News Since 1996 nearly one million low-income working parents in 15 states lost Medicaid coverage, mainly as they moved from welfare to work. According to a new report by Families USA, during the four-year period from January 1996 through December 1999, Medicaid coverage for low-income parents in the 15 states studied dropped from 3,503,553 to 2,557,673 – a decline of 27%. Reductions in Medicaid enrollment occurred in each year, and the percentage of enrollment losses over the past two years (January 1998 to December 1999) were only slightly lower than . . .