Get health care coverage through Medicaid? You may be booted from program

Story at a glance
  • Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020.
  • At the beginning of the pandemic, the federal government prohibited states from kicking people off Medicaid, even if they were no longer eligible.
  • Now states will begin checking everyone's eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years...