KFF Health News October 2, 2024
It was expected that the past year and a half would be a fraught time for Medicaid, the workhorse of the nation’s health system, which covers more people than any other government health insurance program.
In April 2023, states resumed screening people for Medicaid eligibility and terminating coverage for those they said no longer qualified or failed to renew, which had been prohibited under pandemic-era protections. Many health advocates feared the uninsured rate, which had just hit historic lows, would resurge.
But while more than 25 million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage during the Medicaid “unwinding,” many also gained coverage as more than a dozen states expanded health coverage for lower-income people, including children, pregnant women and incarcerated people. And...
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