Medical Xpress June 29, 2024
In a survey of low-income adults across Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas, one in eight respondents who were enrolled in Medicaid at some point since March 2020 reported no longer having Medicaid coverage by late 2023, with nearly half of that pool reporting being currently uninsured, according to a study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The researchers conducted the survey from September to November 2023, about six months after the start of “Medicaid unwinding”—the process by which states rechecked Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility after the expiration of COVID-19-era coverage protections.
“We know from government statistics that, of the more than 90 million people whose health coverage was in jeopardy amid Medicaid unwinding, more than 23 million were removed...
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