Whenever the public health emergency is officially over, millions of Americans will face a life-threatening reality. It’s called the “Medicaid Cliff” — that point in time when the current pandemic-driven prohibition on states terminating Medicaid coverage will end and more than 80 million Americans will face a paperwork blizzard while trying to keeping their health coverage. Further, more than one in ten will likely no longer be eligible and will need immediate help finding new coverage in the federal health exchanges.
The great tragedy is no one knows. While the lifting of a similar pandemic prohibition on evictions garnered tremendous publicity, awareness of the Medicaid Cliff is not nearly as great, even though its impact will very likely be much greater.
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