At least 2 million children from low-income households have lost their Medicaid coverage this year due to the expiration of pandemic-era policies and paperwork issues.

Extra federal funding introduced during Covid provided Medicaid coverage for millions of low-income adults and kids. But since it expired this past March, over 10 million Americans have dropped out.

At least 2 million of those disenrollments are children—a figure that Joan Alker, executive director and research professor at the Georgetown Center, believes will only continue to grow.

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    8 months ago

    I’ve been on medicaid for years before the pandemic and never had a problem and then out of nowhere they kicked me off, it took about 1 month and around 20 hours of being on hold to get back on it. They just hadn’t looked at my file so it was marked as hasn’t provided information. Once I got my case worker on the phone she took about 2 minutes and told me she has no idea why I was kicked off it.