(The Center Square) – The number of low-income Mainers who lack basic health insurance has declined dramatically under an expansion of the federal Medicaid program.
That's according to a new federal report, which shows Maine’s uninsured rate dropped 4.9 percentage points – from 21.3% in 2018 to 16.5% in 2020 – among adults aged 19-64 who qualified to receive coverage under the expansion.
Gov. Janet Mills seized on the report to tout her administration's work to expand Medicaid coverage for tens of thousands of low-income Maine residents. Under the Medicaid expansion, which was approved by Maine voters in the 2017 elections, the federal government covers about 90% of the cost of coverage, according to the Mills administration. Nearly 98,000 low-income residents are now covered through the program, which Mills said has helped approximately 1 in 10 residents afford health coverage.
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