California’s 12,209,605 Medicaid/CHIP Enrollees Outnumber Populations of 44 States

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CNS News:

(CNSNews.com) - The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in California alone exceeds the total populations of 44 of the other states of the union, according to data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Census Bureau.

 

As of Jan. 1, 2014, state’s joining Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion could enroll people in the federal-state program under new, relaxed eligibility requirements. California was one of those states.

 

In the fall of 2013, the Obamacare exchanges opened to enroll people in health insurance plans for 2014.

 

The average number of Medicaid/CHIP enrollees in California in July-September 2013—the last quarter before the Obamacare exchanges opened--was 7,755,381, according to CMS.