KFF November 18, 2021
Recent policy attention on efforts to reduce the number of people uninsured has focused on expanding eligibility for coverage assistance, including enhanced premium subsidies in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace and filling the Medicaid “coverage gap.”
In particular, as Congress considers a budget measure to temporarily expand coverage to the more than two million uninsured people in the “coverage gap” due to state decisions not to expand Medicaid, there an additional 7.0 million nonelderly uninsured people who are eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) (more than a quarter of the 27.4 million uninsured in 2020). Although millions of more people are covered through Medicaid as a result of the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic...
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