Current Events > Nearly 1 in 4 adults dumped from Medicaid are now uninsured

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicaid-uninsured-adults-survey/

Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring last spring.

The first national survey of adults whose Medicaid eligibility was reviewed during the unwinding found nearly half of people who lost their government coverage signed back up weeks or months later suggesting they should never have been dropped in the first place.

While 23% reported being uninsured, an additional 28% found other coverage through an employer, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplace, or health care for members of the military, the survey by KFF found.

"Twenty-three percent is a striking number especially when you think about the number of people who lost Medicaid coverage," said Chima Ndumele, an associate professor of health policy at the Yale University School of Public Health.

Going without insurance even for a short period of time can lead people to delay seeking care and leave them at financial risk when they do.

Seven in 10 adults who were disenrolled during the unwinding process say they became uninsured at least temporarily when they lost their Medicaid coverage.

Adrienne Hamar, 49, of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, said she struggled to enroll in an Affordable Care Act marketplace plan this winter after the state informed her that she and her two children no longer qualified for Medicaid. They had been enrolled since 2020. She said phone lines were busy at the state's marketplace and she couldn't complete the process online.

Hamar, who works as a home health aide, and her children were uninsured in March. But since April 1, they've been enrolled in a marketplace plan that, with the help of government subsidies, costs $50 a month for the family.

Thanks Obama.

Children too https://www.newsweek.com/texas-removes-millions-children-medicaid-1889546

Interesting. I still have medicaid lol.

TraurigAberWahr posted...

Children too https://www.newsweek.com/texas-removes-millions-children-medicaid-1889546

Yes, but many fewer than adults. The limit for children's Medicaid is something like double that of an adult's, so they have a lot more breathing room before they don't qualify for coverage.

Shoulda thought of that before being born in a capitalist hell hole

Yeah, this was incredibly fucked up. I was dropped for having more than 2000$ in my savings account. Good thing I don't need to see a doctor every month, another specialist every 3 months, MRIs & bloodwork every 6. IV steroids and medication that costs 10k a dose! O shit wait

Been desperately looking into MC advantage plans but there arent many good options for me.

Just using this topic as a means to vent. Dont mind me

Should be free healthcare for all. Most of the civilized world has it

solosnake posted...

Should be free healthcare for all. Most of the civilized world has it

Yeah but thats socialism and would hurt profits so no