After two months of media shellacking, healthcare.gov website woes and a series of skeptical congressional grillings, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was accentuating the positive, noting the jump in the number of people eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. More than 1.46 million people were determined eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) in October, . The report is the first in a series of monthly reports to be released by the agency. There was also an increase in the number of people applying for eligibility. In the states that opted not to expand Medicaid, October’s numbers were up 4.1 percent over the...
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