Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Bay State strips 36,000 of Medicaid (Massachusetts)
Boston Globe story - "Last-minute efforts to reverse cuts to the state Medicaid program fell short yesterday, meaning that more than 36,000 chronically unemployed adults today lose their state-funded health insurance. Some of these patients, who were notified two weeks ago that they were about to be dropped, will be eligible for other forms of state aid, health care advocates said. But many in this vulnerable group -- most have substance abuse or mental health problems -- will go without basic care, then turn up in emergency rooms nursing severe illnesses, the advocates said."