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A new report on barriers to Medicaid access in seven states, including Alaska, shows how even people who are eligible for Medicaid struggle to enroll and maintain coverage due to bureaucratic roadblocks and lack of knowledge about eligibility.

by the Center for Popular Democracy on barriers to Medicaid access in seven states, including Alaska, shows how even people who are eligible for Medicaid struggle to enroll and maintain coverage due to bureaucratic roadblocks and lack of knowledge about eligibility.reveals how each of the states’ Medicaid services are falling short., nearly 235,000, or about one in three, residents rely on Medicaid. Per capita, that’s more than the national average of about one in five.

When asked how satisfied they were with their recent Medicaid application process, only 36.9% reported being satisfied. According to the survey, 53% reported being dissatisfied, while the remaining 10.1% reported being neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. Administrative barriers, such as cumbersome paperwork demands or enrollment processes, were also mentioned.

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