More than 1 million people are dropped from Medicaid as states start a post-pandemic purge of rolls
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Source: AP
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork.
Though the eligibility review is required by the federal government, President’s Joe Biden’s administration isn’t too pleased at how efficiently some other states are accomplishing the task.
Florida has dropped several hundred thousand people, by far the most among states. The drop rate also has been particularly high in other states. For people whose cases were decided in May, around half or more got dropped in Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia.
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Really fishy how the red states manage to use paperwork technicalities to drop people from Medicaid. I wonder how many of those people even know they were dropped, or even received any paperwork to fill out. I imagine a lot of addresses on file are no longer current, and red states probably don't care if they're sending to the wrong address.
I predict our emergency rooms will be slammed this winter with newly uninsured and very sick patients. Covid has not gone away. There was a 9.1% increase in nationwide covid deaths in the last week. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_currenthospitalizations_testpositivity_00
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