More than one third of the Arizonans who have lost Medicaid coverage since April are under the age of 19. It's part of the post-pandemic 'unwinding.'
President Joe Biden warned of the House Republicans' plan to cut Medicaid and overturn the Affordable Care Act during his speech in Virginia.Nearly 150,000 Arizonans have lost Medicaid coverage in a post-pandemic"unwinding process" and more than one-third of those people are younger than 19, new state data shows.
The unwinding process is a huge undertaking in Arizona, as the program as of March enrolled 2.53 million people or one in every three state residents. Enrollment as of this month had declined to 2.36 million, or about 32% of the state's population, AHCCCS data shows. The KFF data says about three-quarters of the people who have lost coverage to date were disenrolled due to procedural reasons and AHCCCS data shows a similar pattern in Arizona.
But now that the federal public health emergency is over, states have lifted the freeze on disenrollment. In spite of awareness campaigns, many people appear to be missing the message that they are at risk of losing coverage. Early data releases"cannot yet capture what these initial rates mean and reducing it to one global number ignores the reality that there are many different scenarios that are occurring," AHCCCS spokesperson Heidi Capriotti wrote in an email Wednesday.
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