At least 2 million children from low-income households have lost their Medicaid coverage this year due to the expiration of pandemic-era policies and paperwork issues.
Extra federal funding introduced during Covid provided Medicaid coverage for millions of low-income adults and kids. But since it expired this past March, over 10 million Americans have dropped out.
At least 2 million of those disenrollments are children—a figure that Joan Alker, executive director and research professor at the Georgetown Center, believes will only continue to grow.
I’ve been on medicaid for years before the pandemic and never had a problem and then out of nowhere they kicked me off, it took about 1 month and around 20 hours of being on hold to get back on it. They just hadn’t looked at my file so it was marked as hasn’t provided information. Once I got my case worker on the phone she took about 2 minutes and told me she has no idea why I was kicked off it.