Medicaid Enrollment – Alabama

Alabama Medicaid could add 237,000 to rolls, but money an issue, By Sean Reilly, August 13, 2009, Mobile Press-Register: “At least 237,000 Alabamians could gain health coverage through the state Medicaid program under legislation now moving through Congress, according to an official agency estimate, and the expanded rolls could end up costing state taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year. The estimate, provided at the Press-Register’s request, is based on raising the state’s stringent income eligibility cutoffs to match the federal poverty level, now $18,310 a year for a family of three…”