The end of a Covid-era Medicaid protection has created an acute problem for the president in the leadup to November.
President Joe Biden hopes to minimize the number of people losing health insurance coverage in the run-up to the November election. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICOPresident Joe Biden is widening a critical window for low-income Americans to join Obamacare, in a move aimed at reinforcing a central element of his reelection bid: That he presided over a historic expansion of health care coverage.
The move aims to minimize the number of people losing health insurance coverage in the run-up to the November election as a result of a nationwide purge of state Medicaid rolls. The mass disenrollments are happening for the first time since the pandemic, prompted by the expiration last April of a Covid-era policy meant to prevent vulnerable people from losing coverage amid the health crisis.
Texas, another GOP-led state with large enrollment in the safety net program, has so far terminated coverage for 2.1 million recipients — more than half of its Medicaid population. State officials have said they’re working closely with the federal government to manage the process, and that the number of disenrollments comes after the program ballooned in size during the pandemic.
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