Opinion: Averting the looming purge of people from Medicaid
Up to 16 million Americans on Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to low-income people, are on the verge of calamity, and it will take thoughtful, decisive action on the part of government to avert it.
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the federal government increased its share of Medicaid reimbursement to states. In exchange, states agreed to not remove anyone from Medicaid. This protection, and the expanded reimbursement, were to stay in place until the federal government ended the pandemic public health emergency.
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