Medicaid Coverage Set to Expire, Millions at Risk.

Millions of people will begin to lose their health insurance on Saturday, as five states begin the unwinding of a pandemic-era protection that kept people from being removed from the Medicaid rosters. The issue that advocates are concerned about is that not enough people know they're about to get kicked off their coverage. Despite the dire stakes, losing Medicaid is a common problem that used to happen annually before the pandemic. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that roughly 7 million Americans who still qualify for Medicaid will lose benefits. Another 8 million will lose coverage because they no longer qualify and need outreach to understand where they can enroll in other, low-cost government health programs through the Affordable Care Act.