Post by Logan on Apr 5, 2016 19:08:49 GMT -6
CONCORD — About 50,000 low-income adults will be able to continue their health care coverage for two more years after Gov. Maggie Hassan signed House Bill 1696 into law Tuesday.
“We did it,” said the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Joseph Lachance, R-Manchester, as he threw his arms in the air and the 100 or so people attending the bill-signing ceremony broke out in applause.
The bill extends the New Hampshire Health Protection Program for two more years until Dec. 31, 2018 while adding a work requirement — something federal regulators have never approved — and having hospitals and insurance companies pay the state’s share of the cost, about $40 million.
The program was touted for providing health coverage to those below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, lowering uncompensated care costs for hospitals and community health and mental health centers, and treating about 6,000 people addicted to opioids.
Read more: www.unionleader.com/Gov-Hassan-signs-Medicaid-expansion-extension-bill
“We did it,” said the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Joseph Lachance, R-Manchester, as he threw his arms in the air and the 100 or so people attending the bill-signing ceremony broke out in applause.
The bill extends the New Hampshire Health Protection Program for two more years until Dec. 31, 2018 while adding a work requirement — something federal regulators have never approved — and having hospitals and insurance companies pay the state’s share of the cost, about $40 million.
The program was touted for providing health coverage to those below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, lowering uncompensated care costs for hospitals and community health and mental health centers, and treating about 6,000 people addicted to opioids.
Read more: www.unionleader.com/Gov-Hassan-signs-Medicaid-expansion-extension-bill