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Time to Get It Right: State Actions Now Can Preserve Medicaid Coverage When Public Health Emergency Ends

May 18, 2022 | and
Millions of people could lose health coverage when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends — possibly later this year — and states resume their regular eligibility reviews of all Medicaid enrollees. But massive coverage losses aren’t inevitable. States now have at least five additional months to prepare and should take steps now to ensure that eligible individuals remain on Medicaid and to help those no longer eligible for Medicaid transition to other coverage.
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Medicaid provides health coverage to low-income families and individuals, including children, parents, pregnant people, seniors, and people with disabilities. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) covers children in families that earn too much to receive Medicaid but can’t afford insurance through the private market.

We work to encourage states to adopt the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, identify obstacles to Medicaid enrollment, develop and advance recommendations to maximize enrollment of eligible people, and protect Medicaid and CHIP from cuts or structural changes that would hurt low-income beneficiaries.

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