The Cook County Health and Hospitals System has initiated CountyCare applications for about 141,000 county residents who are eligible for the program that began in January 2013 for those newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
Linda Diamond Shapiro, chief strategy officer for CCHHS, revealed at a finance committee board meeting Friday, “We’ve touched about a third of the people eligible,” adding that, “It gets harder and harder” to find eligible applicants because “we get the easy-to-reach first.”