Forbes August 7, 2023
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of disenrolling people who are ineligible for benefits. And Democrats think that’s a catastrophe.
Some 3.8 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April, as states resume standard eligibility reviews that had been paused since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter to America’s governors, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said he was “particularly concerned that children may lose coverage” during the coming “redetermination.” And in a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Congressional Democrats say they are “troubled” by the prospect of people being booted from Medicaid “for procedural reasons”—in layman’s terms, problems with their paperwork.
This concern is misplaced. Most of...
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