During the public health emergency, states were required to keep people on Medicaid without the often yearly reapplication process normally in place. But now that the public health emergency is winding down, so are the Medicaid rolls .
A woman sits on an examination table in a clinic while a health care professional checks her blood pressure.Millions of people will begin to lose their health insurance on Saturday, as five states begin thethat kept people from being removed from the Medicaid rosters.
The issue that Joseph and other advocates are concerned about is that not enough people know they're about to get kicked off their coverage. Arkansas is one of the five states that will start removing people from coverage on April 1, along with Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota and New Hampshire. According to estimates from KFF, a nonpartisan nonprofit that reports on national health issues, roughly 65% of people who do get disenrolled end up uninsured for a portion of the following year."It's not just like you check a box and you can get back on Medicaid the next day. The process of getting re-enrolled in Medicaid, even when you're eligible, can take months.
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