The Maryland Health Connection is the state’s Obamacare Marketplace. Monday, an agency press release noted that Maryland “has cut by 40 percent the number of Marylanders who were eligible for private insurance coverage when the state marketplace began three years ago.” However, the breakdown of that statistic reveals that only 165,000 out of more than one million sign-ups are non-Medicaid enrollments.
When the exchange opened three years ago, an estimated 405,000 people were eligible for private coverage. Three years later, that number has fallen to 240,000. But the press release notes that including Medicaid over one million have been enrolled in through the Maryland Health Connection. This puts the number of Medicaid sign-ups around 83 to 84 percent and private coverage around only 16 to 17 percent.
Maryland also notes in the press release that, including Medicaid, ninety percent of those enrolled through the exchange received either subsidized or free coverage:
In spite of these enrollments, the study, conducted by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that in some parts of Maryland, as many as 3 out of 4 individuals who are eligible are still without coverage.
