Pew Trusts

By: Michael Ollove

Many of the tens of millions of Americans who have lost their health insurance along with their jobs are enrolling in Medicaid — and with state budgets decimated by the pandemic, state officials worry they won’t have the money to pay for their health care…. Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families late last month published an analysis of public data on Medicaid enrollment in 21 states from February through April…. Those increases are substantial, but likely to be dwarfed by what is coming, said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown center. “We haven’t seen the real surge yet.”

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