Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Pennsylvania’s Affordable Care Act-authorized expansion of its Medicaid program.
In that year, nearly 625,000 Pennsylvanians enrolled in the program.
Among them,

  • 46 percent are under the age of 35
  • 109,000 are parents
  • 300,000 are employed

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If past Medicaid utilization patterns hold true, most of these new Medicaid beneficiaries will receive most of their health care benefits from the state’s private safety-net hospitals.
Learn more about Pennsylvania’s Medicaid expansion, who has taken advantage of it, and how the program has changed in the past three years in this state news release.