LANSING – More than 237,000 people have signed up for health-care coverage under the state’s expanded Medicaid eligibility in the first six weeks of the program, officials have indicated.
According to the Healthy Michigan webpage, as of late Monday, there were 237,329 persons signed up for the program. Healthy Michigan is the name of the expanded Medicaid program.
On May 1, the one month anniversary of the opening of enrollment to the program, the state showed that 158,654 people had signed up for the program, meaning that in fewer than two weeks nearly 80,000 more people have signed up.
The total also means the program has attracted close to the 270,000 people in Michigan who signed up for health insurance on the federal exchange under the Affordable Care Act.
Also, the number is more than the 225,000 people in Michigan critics of the ACA said lost their coverage because of required changes in the act.
And it means that the state is now fewer than 100,000 people short of the expected 320,000 people it expected would sign up for coverage during this year. The state anticipates about 470,000 people total will sign up for the program.
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