Millions of people are losing Medicaid coverage in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Enrollment in the health program for the low-income and disabled grew to 95 million during the pandemic, as states stopped checking to make sure people were eligible. Now states have started checking again, and more than 1.6 million people have been kicked off the program in the past three months, according to KFF, a health-analysis foundation. Federal regulators estimate that 15 million to 17 million people will eventually be pushed off Medicaid. Many of those people are losing coverage because of paperwork or other procedural problems—sometimes with little warning.
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