As Healthcare.gov rebounds, new glitches hit Medicaid enrollments

But the news involving Medicaid isn’t all good.

Last week, I wrote about a public radio reporter in Missouri who is too rich for Medicaid in her state, but too poor for a subsidy to buy private insurance. Missouri is among 25 states that have decided not to expand their Medicaid programs to cover adults with incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($15,856 for one person), as called for in the act. The Supreme Court gave states the option to refuse the expansion without consequence, even though the federal government has agreed to pick up the entire bill for the first three years.

Some other recent news on the Medicaid front:

USA Today reported Monday that HealthCare.gov “is incorrectly determining that some people are eligible for Medicaid when they clearly are not, leaving them with little chance to get the subsidized insurance they are entitled to as the Dec. 23 deadline for enrollment approaches.”