Friday, October 03, 2003

State restores Medicaid coverage (Massachusetts)
Story in the Boston Globe - " Massachusetts will begin restoring health insurance to thousands of low-income residents who lost it five months ago, but the state's retooled Medicaid program for the long-term unemployed will target a poorer population and includes an enrollment cap that will shut out some qualified applicants for the first time. MassHealth Essential, which the state will launch today, will cover 36,000 adults who make $9,000 or less annually. Many of them were kicked off the rolls of another Medicaid program, MassHealth Basic, when the Legislature scaled it back last year to save money."