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Article: Thousands of Youngsters on Waiting List for Massachusetts-Funded Health Plan.
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- The Sun (Lowell, MA)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2004
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Byline: Erik Arvidson
Mar. 11--BOSTON -- A state-funded insurance plan created to expand health coverage to every Massachusetts resident 18 and younger now has a waiting list of 10,757, and health-care advocates worry that number could soar in the coming months.
The Children's Medical Security Plan, which provides preventative health-care services and other limited benefits to children and teens, had its enrollment capped in November 2002 amid sweeping budget cuts.
Those on the waiting list are caught in a squeeze because their families are ineligible for Medicaid, but either don't earn enough money to buy private health insurance or their ...