New York, NY —
In 1965, Congress passed the Medicaid Act to provide health insurance for the poor. But according to an upcoming study funded by the United Hospital Fund, the process of getting on medicaid has “degenerated into a labyrinth of documentary proofs, appointments and inconsistent procedures.” The study finds that because of the requirements, hundreds of thousands of Medicaid eligible New Yorkers, many of them homeless, do not get the insurance they’re entitled to. In the second of our two part city on the homeless, WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein reports from Hunt’s Point, the Bronx.