Medicaid Coverage Losses Plague Multiple States Amid Pandemic

More than 140,000 people have lost their Medicaid in Arkansas since April, when the state began unwinding a pandemic-era program that allowed more than 1 million Arkansans to keep their health insurance even if they no longer qualified. As many as 15 million people, including 5 million children, are expected to lose Medicaid in the coming months in what will be one of the largest shifts in the nation’s health care landscape since passage of the Affordable Care Act. The Biden administration is urging governors to consider policies to limit accidental coverage losses, and Democrats in Congress are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to take stronger action.