More than 270,000 people enrolled in Medicaid through expansion so far
Virginia has seen 272,527 adults enroll in Medicaid under the state’s expansion of the program, surpassing even its own expectations.
The state estimated that fewer than 200,000 adults would be enrolled in coverage from January to June of this year, according to a report by Freddy Mejia of the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis.
Virginia’s Medicaid agency operates an expansion dashboard that regularly updates with the number of newly-enrolled adults. As of May 3, nearly 100,000 of the new enrollees were parents, and 45 percent were between the ages of 19 and 34 years old.
At 61 percent, women made up the vast majority of those who have enrolled so far, too, while nearly 200,000 of the enrollees earned below 100 percent of the federal poverty level, or $20,780 for a family of three.
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