More than 1.5 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage in the spring of 2023 due to the end of pandemic policies – and paperwork problems
- Written by Maithreyi Gopalan, Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, Penn State
Medicaid helps millions of low-income Americans get health care.skynesher/E+ via Getty Images
CC BY-NDAt least 1.5 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage in April, May and the first three weeks of June 2023, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit that tracks health data.
Because only 25 states had publicly reported this data as of...