'The COVID-19 epidemic highlights the folly of tying health coverage to jobs,' a co-author of the analysis told Newsweek.
More than 7 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic, while more than 1.5 million are already estimated to have lost coverage, according to a new study.academic journal, was conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York's Hunter College.
"Coverage losses are likely to be steepest in states that have turned down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. In expansion states, the share of persons who have lost or left a job who lacked coverage was 22.1% versus 8.3% for employed persons—a difference of 13.8 percentage points," the study's authors wrote.
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