Pennsylvania: ACA Medicaid expansion up to 134K (22% of total eligible)

Hat Tip To: 
Margot Sanger-Katz, Elana Gordon

My most recent data for PA's "Healthy PA" program (their implementation of the ACA's Medicaid expansion provision) was 118K, so I wasn't going to post on this today, but a subsequent update says that the actual number is higher still, at 134,000:

State officials estimate that as of January 1, 2015 about 600,000 Pennsylvanians became eligible for Medicaid through its newly expanded Healthy Pennsylvaniaoption.

Enrollment began last month, and as of Monday, a spokesperson reported the state had received at least 114,000 household applications (it's unclear how many came from people who were previously uninsured).

.@sangerkatz just got another update - # of household applications for #HealthyPA went up to 134K (unclear how many previously uninsured).

— Elana Gordon (@Elana_Gordon) January 9, 2015

 

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