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An Urban Institute analysis released this week, How the COVID-19 Recession Could Affect Health Insurance Coverage, estimates, in the more conservative of two models deployed, that if the unemployment rate reaches 15%, Medicaid enrollment will increase by 8.2 million nationally. That would constitute a 16% increase in total Medicaid enrollment for the under-65 population.
Minnesota appears to be halfway there already. The state tracks enrollment in managed* Medicaid and MinnesotaCare, a Basic Health Program that provides Medicaid-like coverage to people in households with income up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, on a monthly basis.
From February to May this year, managed Medicaid enrollment in Minnesota for adults age 21-64 is up 10.4%. For pregnant women, it's up 16%. Enrollment of children is up 6%. Enrollment in MinnesotaCare, the BHP, is up 24% -- though enrollment in that particular program was up almost as much in Feb-May 2019.
In total, managed Medicaid/MinnesotaCare enrollment has increased by 77,142 (8%) since February, more than five times last's year's increase in the same period of 14,547 (2%). Since mid-March, 590,000 Minnesotans have applied for unemployment benefits, according to the state Management and Budget office's May budget projection.
An Urban Institute analysis released this week, How the COVID-19 Recession Could Affect Health Insurance Coverage, estimates, in the more conservative of two models deployed, that if the unemployment rate reaches 15%, Medicaid enrollment will increase by 8.2 million nationally. That would constitute a 16% increase in total Medicaid enrollment for the under-65 population.
Minnesota appears to be halfway there already. The state tracks enrollment in managed* Medicaid and MinnesotaCare, a Basic Health Program that provides Medicaid-like coverage to people in households with income up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, on a monthly basis.
From February to May this year, managed Medicaid enrollment in Minnesota for adults age 21-64 is up 10.4%. For pregnant women, it's up 16%. Enrollment of children is up 6%. Enrollment in MinnesotaCare, the BHP, is up 24% -- though enrollment in that particular program was up almost as much in Feb-May 2019.
In total, managed Medicaid/MinnesotaCare enrollment has increased by 77,142 (8%) since February, more than five times last's year's increase in the same period of 14,547 (2%). Since mid-March, 590,000 Minnesotans have applied for unemployment benefits, according to the state Management and Budget office's May budget projection.
