Monday Numbers

** This post is reposted by NC Policy Watch...every Monday, they post a list of numbers. NASW-NC is sharing this on their behalf as it's important to note the number of people who are affected by cuts in NC.

Monday numbers
Posted on 10/17/2011 by Chris Fitzsimon


1.5 million—number of people in North Carolina who do not have health insurance coverage (Five Reasons Everyday North Carolinians Need Medicaid, Even If They Don’t Know It, N.C. Health Access Coalition, October 2011)

27—percentage of Medicaid enrollees who are from middle class households including nursing home residents, people with disabilities, and victims of catastrophic accidents (Ibid)

73,000—amount in dollars of average annual cost of nursing home care for seniors (Ibid)

43,754—amount in dollars of the median income for a North Carolina family of four (Ibid)

70—percentage of nursing home residents nationwide who eventually become Medicaid recipients to pay for nursing home care (Ibid)

237,000—number of seniors in North Carolina who received Medicaid in 2008 (Ibid)

282,000—number of people with disabilities in North Carolina who received Medicaid in 2008 (Ibid)

683,000—number of infants in children in North Carolina who received Medicaid in 2008 (Ibid)

60,000—number of women in North Carolina who received Medicaid care affecting their pregnancy in 2008 (Ibid)

65—percentage of maternity stays for women under age 25 provided by Medicaid nationwide (Ibid)

3—number of years since study found that total medical spending is much lower when coverage is provided by Medicaid or SCHIP than it is when coverage is provided by private insurance. (Public And Private Health Insurance: Stacking Up The Costs, Health Affairs, 27, no. 4, 2008)

763 million—amount in state dollars cut from Medicaid in 2011-2013 in budget approved by the General Assembly in June (BTC REPORTS: The 2011-2013 Final Budget – Neglecting a Balanced Approach, Budget Costs Jobs and Delays Economic Recovery, June 2011)

1.56 billion—amount in federal Medicaid matching dollars that will be lost in the next two years because of state Medicaid cuts in the 2011-2013 budget (Ibid)

2.289 billion—total amount of reduction of state and federal Medicaid spending in the next two years because of state Medicaid cuts in the 2011-2013 budget (Ibid)

13,355—number of jobs that will be lost in North Carolina because of loss of Medicaid spending in 2011-2013 due to state cuts and resulting loss of federal matching dollars (BTC BRIEF: Legislative Budget Would Cost North Carolina 30,000 Jobs, Billions in Economic Output,” NC Budget and Tax Center: June 2011)
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