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Title: Impact of a 1% Point Increase in Unemployment on State Revenues, Medicaid, CHIP & Uninsured
Description:
Each percentage point increase in the nation’s unemployment rate leads to a decline in state revenues of 3 to 4 percent, while Medicaid and CHIP enrollment rises by 1.0 million and the number uninsured grows by 1.1 million.
Source:
John Holahan and Bowen Garrett, Rising Unemployment, Medicaid, and the Uninsured, prepared for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2009.
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Topics:
Medicaid / CHIP; Uninsured / Coverage
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KFF.org Data Spotlight
Slide Date: February 18, 2009
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