Forbes January 10, 2024
U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra told Forbes there’s an “interplay,” as some people losing Medicaid coverage are now getting it on the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
The highest number of Americans ever signed up for Obamacare health insurance plans starting in 2024, but the program’s record could be undermined by the millions of low-income Americans who have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months due to bureaucratic snafus.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that more than 20.3 million people had signed up for the health plans as of December 24, 2023, surpassing the previous record of 16.4 million sign-ups in 2023. But over the past year nearly 14.4 million low-income adults and children have been kicked...