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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Medicaid Expansion – Pennsylvania

Applying for Pa. Medicaid expansion? Wait in line, By Robert Calandra, January 16, 2015, Philadelphia Inquirer: “Almost seven weeks after the launch of Healthy Pennsylvania, the state’s Medicaid expansion plan, enrollment has been hampered by delays. Only an estimated 55,000 of 163,968 people who applied for the program by Jan. 1 have been enrolled in the Medicaid expansion, said Kait Gillis, spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services. She acknowledged the delays and said the agency was working to fix them…”