From WSJopinion: Why hasn’t the U.S. Covid public-health emergency ended? The holdup isn’t Covid, it’s Medicaid, which the White House seeks to expand into something it was never meant to be, write Markus Bjoerkheim and Liam Sigaud
Why hasn’t the U.S. Covid public-health emergency ended? The holdup isn’t Covid, it’s Medicaid, which the White House seeks to expand into something it was never meant to be.
As long as the emergency continues, so will provisions from the March 2020 Covid relief bill that have vastly expanded the number of enrollees in the program. The Covid package substantially increased the proportion of Medicaid costs that the federal government covers and barred states that receive the funding from checking enrollees’ eligibility or removing the ineligible from Medicaid rolls.
Enrollment has since increased by about 25%, pushing the program further from its intended purpose as a temporary safety net for those who fall on hard times. At this point it looks more like a publicly funded long-term insurer.
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