With a green light from the federal government, states across the US have thrown hundreds of thousands of low-income people off Medicaid in recent weeks. And many have lost coverage because they failed to navigate bureaucratic mazes — not because they were no longer eligible.
More than a dozen states, including Florida and other Republican-led states that have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, have begun removing people from Medicaid as part of the "unwinding" of a pandemic-era federal policy that temporarily barred governments from kicking people off the program.
