Medicaid Infant Mortality Amendments of 1987

Summary

Medicaid Infant Mortality Amendments of 1987 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow States to extend Medicaid coverage to pregnant women and infants under age one whose family income exceeds current income eligibility standards, but does not exceed 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Authorizes States to accelerate the coverage of poor children under age five. (Currently, coverage would not be extended to all poor children under age five until FY 1991.) Allows States to extend Medicaid coverage to poor children under age eight.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 February 1987

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