Todd is a full-time student and works two part time jobs. His wife Erin stays at home with their 8 month old baby, Jane. Erin had Medicaid coverage during her pregnancy and the two months that followed but she and husband Todd are now uninsured. They earn too little to qualify for subsidies in the Marketplace but too much to qualify for Medicaid in Utah.
Medicaid provides health and long-term care coverage to nearly 70 million low-income Americans across the U.S. and is an integral part of the nation’s health care system. The stories in the Faces of Medicaid series (http://kff.org/faces-of-medicaid/) reveal the range of experience and diverse roles that Medicaid plays in the lives of Americans across the U.S. These stories are not intended to be an evaluation of the program, but to get underneath Medicaid’s statistics and provide insight into a range of individual experiences with the program.
