Millions of people could lose Medicaid this year as pandemic-era coverage protections come to an end.
A majority of the states, 33 in total, use healthcare.gov as their insurance marketplace. The 17 states that run their own marketplaces can implement a special enrollment period but are not required to do so.
Individuals who lose Medicaid won't have to provide any additional documentation to shop for Obamacare. The application will simply ask them whether they lost Medicaid coverage. Consumers have 60 days to pick a health insurance plan after submitting their application. Once they've picked a new plan, coverage will begin on the first day of the following month.
Typically, consumers have to submit documentation of a life change to apply for health insurance outside the open enrollment period, but HHS is streamlining the process for those losing Medicaid.basically banned state governments from kicking people off the programEnrollment in Medicaid has increased by 28% since February 2020 to nearly 84 million people as of September,
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