Michigan: ACA Medicaid Expansion has now enrolled 102% of total eligible (not a typo)

According to the state administration, there are roughly 477,000 Michiganders who qualify for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

Cue FOX News and Breitbart's conspiracy theorists...

Healthy Michigan Plan Enrollment Statistics

Beneficiaries with Healthy Michigan Plan Coverage: 487,190
(Includes beneficiaries enrolled in health plans and beneficiaries not required to enroll in a health plan.)

*Statistics as of December 15, 2014 
*Updated every Monday at 3 p.m.

In all seriousness, obviously that 477K eligibility figure could be off; I've heard other estimates as high as 500,000, for instance.

The point is that the Medicaid expansion well in Michigan, along with many other states, is already running dry less than a year into the program (and in Michigan's case, less than 9 months into the program).

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