Potential Medicaid Expansion Would Extend Coverage To Childless Adults

In this Kaiser Health News story, produced in collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer, reporter Rick Schmitt looks at a part of the proposed Medicaid expansion. Long excluded by Medicaid programs in most states, millions of low-income, childless adults could qualify for coverage under Democratic health overhaul proposals (Schmitt, 3/8). Read entire story.  

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