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13 October
5:32 pm

hundred thousand people in the state of Maine are getting access to our health care [through Medicaid]

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Hannah Pingree, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (WGME)

5:32 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figure about the number of Maine residents enrolled in/accessing Medicaid, which could be verified against enrollment data.
What we foundThe claim that 'hundred thousand' people access health care through Medicaid in Maine is a significant undercount of total enrollment; the figure is accurate only for the narrower Medicaid expansion sub-group, while total MaineCare enrollment is several times larger.
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