A government failure of this scale should be scandalous.
It’s a tale of two countries: In some states, public officials are trying to make government work for their constituents. In others, they aren’t. began. Early during the pandemic, in exchange for additional funds, Congress temporarily prohibited states from kicking anyone off Medicaid. But as of April 1, 2023, states were allowed to start disenrolling people.
Equally embarrassing: We don’t know what ultimately happened to those who were purged and how many have any access to care now.applied for lots of federal waivers to help them use more of the administrative data they had on file toSome states also learned from their pandemic experience: They realized that not requiring young kids to repeatedly submit the same paperwork reduced the risk of vulnerable children wrongfully losing access to medical care.
In some parts of the country, public officials are slashing bigger holes in their safety nets. In Arkansas, officials brag about “” their state’s Medicaid program. This included purging 25,000 children off of “newborn” coverage over the course of six months. More recently, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Floridian beneficiaries up for renewal so far have lost their coverage. But that’s nothing compared with Texas, where half of those up for renewal were purged.
As bad as the numbers are, it’s worth considering how much worse this catastrophe might have been with different federal leadership. Recall that the Trump administration, for instance, did all it could tois on Medicaid. Yet, for some reason, the partial dismantling of this critical program has barely pierced the election news cycle so far. Presumably, some politicians would prefer to keep it that way.
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