Faces of Medicaid: Wendy - Cleveland, Ohio

When Wendy lost her job in 2009, she lost her health insurance with it. While unemployed and uninsured, Wendy began noticing symptoms of what turned out to be pernicious anemia, a treatable but incurable condition affecting the body’s red blood cells. Hospital visits and treatment led to serious medical debt, which Wendy was unable to pay off. She now has a temporary job but no offer of employer health coverage. When Ohio expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in January 2014, Wendy became eligible. With this coverage, Wendy is able to receive treatment for her chronic condition.

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.

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