Millions Losing Medicaid as Government Conducts Enrollment Review
- An unparalleled, nationwide review of Medicaid enrollees is underway, forcing states to remove people whose incomes are now too high to qualify for the program.
- Millions are expected to lose their insurance after being protected for the past three years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Advocates have warned that confusion and mistakes will be widespread, improperly leaving some of the nation's poorest people suddenly without health insurance and unable to pay for essential medical care.
- Medicaid enrollees report they have already been wrongly removed in some states that have started cutting people from the program.
- Doctors and their staff are taking it upon themselves to notify patients about the complex process they will have to navigate over the next year.