FACT CHECK: A 'Glide Path' Still Kicks Americans Off Health Coverage

Doesn’t matter how you spin it, Senate GOP. A seven-year rollback of the Medicaid expansion would still mean that millions of Americans would lose health coverage. As a reminder, here’s what the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities had to say about how Americans would be impacted by ending the Medicaid expansion:

“… Republican proposal would thus effectively end the Medicaid expansion now in effect in most or all of the 31 states and Washington, D.C. and preclude other states from adopting the expansion.  As a result, the 11 million newly eligible low-income adults who have enrolled in Medicaid under the expansion would be at severe risk of becoming uninsured.”

“The bill still would reverse the historic gains in health coverage and access to care that have been made under the expansion.”

‘”…CBO estimates that more than two-thirds of those enrolled in the Medicaid expansion at the end of 2019 would fall off the program by the end of 2021 and that fewer than 5 percent would remain on Medicaid by the end of 2024.”