New Face Medicaid

 

http://www.mainstreet.com/article/family/family-health/new-face-medicaid

as appearing on TheStreet

 

NEW YORK (MainStreet) — At age 33, Maya, who lives in Lakeland, Flor., had been working fulltime until she was laid off. Along with her job, she lost her health insurance and became financially strapped. Buying health insurance on her own was simply too expensive for her.

Maya, who declined to disclose her full name, is just one of the uninsured adults profiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured who could qualify for health insurance coverage under the new state Medicaid expansion created under the Affordable Care Act.