The old Medicaid eligible who never applied are not applying now, either. Of course that doesn’t mean that the someone at the state didn’t apply for them.
If the old Medicaid is still the same, why do the feds have to pay any of it and what is the difference between the old Medicaid and the new Medicaid, they are both free. WA now has a welfare society and Inslee is about to raise the minimum wage again, to go along with it. Why did all the old Medicaid people have to sign up again on-line?
The last that I read this was a big disaster because a good number of the real Medicaid recipients don’t have computers and don’t read the news.
I was not aware that people already in Medicaid had to sign up again, so I don't know what to say about that.
Eligibility requirements for the “old” Medicaid were much more strict than requirements for the new ObamaCare Medicaid.
Both those sets of requirements will stay in place when it comes to dividing up the cost between states and Feds.
People who would be eligible for the “old” Medicaid will cost states about 50-50, even if they sign up for the first time today.