TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senate Health Committee Chairman Joseph F. Vitale, Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Nia H. Gill, and Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg that would provide Medicaid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents was approved today by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.
“The federal government’s Medicaid expansion program offers states a great opportunity to provide health coverage to some of New Jersey’s most needy residents, at no initial cost to the state,” said Senator Vitale, D-Middlesex. “Since the federal government will pick up the entire tab for the first three years and eventually pay 90 percent of the costs associated with this program, expanding the Medicaid program is a real windfall in savings for the state and will allow more struggling New Jerseyans access to Medicaid.”
