The pandemic is showing how well Medicaid works—and how to improve it

Modern Healthcare July 1, 2020
Margaret A. Murray

From the use of telehealth to predictive analytics, healthcare leaders are engaged in a national conversation about how to build on what’s working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medicaid belongs high on this list. One bold measure Congress enacted—providing continuous Medicaid coverage to enrollees—should not end with the pandemic.

Since the pandemic’s outbreak, more than 41 million Americans have lost their jobs, and according to one estimate, more than 27 million of them risk losing the private health insurance attached to their jobs, depending on the economy. Millions of them are turning to Medicaid to maintain access to care.

In normal times, Medicaid is characterized by churn. While millions of people enroll in Medicaid every year, millions are also dropped from...

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