Millions at risk of losing Medicaid coverage as pandemic protections expire.

Millions of low-income Americans who received Medicaid benefits during the pandemic face losing coverage as the temporary guarantee that preserved the safety-net health coverage for the past three years comes to an end. States will begin to sever an anticipated 15 million low-income Americans from Medicaid rolls that ballooned to record heights because of a pandemic-era promise that people with the health insurance could keep it. The unwinding has led to an unparalleled choreography between federal health officials, who oversee the program, and states, which set many of their own eligibility rules and carry out the ground-level work.