California Healthline June 24, 2021
The Biden administration is quietly engineering a series of expansions to Medicaid that may bolster protections for millions of low-income Americans and bring more people into the program.
Biden’s efforts — which have been largely overshadowed by other economic and health initiatives — represent an abrupt reversal of the Trump administration’s moves to scale back the safety-net program.
The moves, some of which were funded by the covid relief bill that passed in March, could further boost Medicaid enrollment — which the pandemic pushed to a record 80.5 million in January, including those served by the related Children’s Health Insurance Program. That’s up from 70 million before the covid crisis began. New mothers, inmates and undocumented immigrants are among those...
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