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13 October
5:58 pm

Five million people are eligible for Medicaid and eight million people are getting benefits.

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:58 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figures about New York Medicaid eligibility vs. enrollment — a concrete numerical claim that could be verified against state enrollment data and would materially affect the audience's understanding of alleged waste or fraud.
What we foundThe '8 million getting benefits' figure was accurate only at the pandemic peak (June 2023) and has since dropped to roughly 6.4–7 million; the '5 million eligible' figure is a rough approximation of Census-based eligibility estimates but is not precisely sourced in any official record.
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