Almost 3.3 million more people were enrolled in state Medicaid programs in June 2009 than in the previous June, a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation reports.
In its analysis, Kaiser’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured notes the enrollment was the biggest ever one-year increase in numbers enrolled, boosting Medicaid enrollment by 7.5%, to 46.9 million people as of June 2009.
It was the first time in decades that every state experienced an increase in Medicaid enrollment, the report states. In 32 states, enrollment grew at least twice as fast as the year before, according to the analysis.