Study finds Americans want pandemic-era ease of applying for Medicaid

Medical Xpress August 20, 2024
Ann Kellett, Texas A&M University

More than 23 million Americans who were granted Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic lost their coverage starting in March 2023 after the pandemic was declared no longer a public health emergency. Many likely will not successfully re-enroll on their own given Medicaid’s administrative burden—the frustrations and challenges people often encounter in seeking or complying with coverage.

Now, a study of the so-called Medicaid Great Unwinding by Dr. Simon F. Haeder with the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, and a colleague from the University of Michigan, assessed how tolerant Americans are of administrative burdens in the wake of such a major policy event.

“One effort to address the pandemic pushed states to make enrolling in Medicaid much easier,...

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