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ADULT HEALTH ► Indicator 18: Percent of Eligible Work- ing -Age Adults Enrolled in Medicaid About 11 percent of the state's working -age adults were eligible for Medicaid in 1990 -92. Of those, only 62.5 percent were enrolled. That percentage is significantly lower than the U.S. average (71.5).' The state's Health Planning Commission has recommended that Medicaid benefits be ex- panded to cover more adults: a) pregnant women whose family incomes are below 200 percent of poverty, b) for two years, postpartum women whose family incomes are below 200 percent of poverty, and c) the elderly and dis- abled whose family incomes are below 100 per- cent of poverty. The Commission also recom- mends eventual expansion of Medicaid to cover the elderly and disabled whose family incomes are below 200 percent of poverty.10 Access to Health Care in North Carolina Based on self reports by working -age adults, data from the 1995 North Carolina Health Pro- file telephone survey show that 3 percent of whites and 16 percent of minorities were cov- ered by Medicaid during the past year. Among adults 65 and older, 10 percent of whites and 34 percent of minorities said they were covered during the past year. Again, that survey ex- cluded households without telephones, so the percentages *are probably underestimates. Failure of physicians to participate in Med- icaid also limits the working -age adult's access to health care. As was noted for children (Indi- cator 10), the feasibility of obtaining this infor- mation should be investigated. v 0 ;2 r n h M M