Commonwealth Fund April 17, 2024
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Nearly 20 million Americans, including more than 4 million children, have lost their health care coverage since the unwinding of continuous Medicaid enrollment began a year ago
Coverage losses during Medicaid unwinding underscore the program’s most fundamental flaw — the absence of annual eligibility periods that can stabilize enrollment
America has reached the one-year point in a complex, challenging undertaking with no real parallel in modern social welfare policy. On April 1, 2023, state governments, operating under broad Congressional and federal regulatory direction, began winding down continuous Medicaid enrollment, which had been adopted three years earlier at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Congress had elected this change to ensure Medicaid coverage would not be interrupted during the public...
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