Millions at risk of losing Medicaid benefits after pandemic rule expires l GMA



Starting April 1, five states will begin disenrolling those who don’t qualify for benefits, with 14 more states following suit starting in May and 20 more reversing the policy in June. READ MORE: https://abcn.ws/3m5Hj28 SUBSCRIBE to ABC News on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP Latest Updates: http://abcnews.go.com/ Watch FULL EPISODES on Hulu: http:/ /abcn.ws/3bzvQQn #medicaid #healthinsurance #news #abcnews

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36 comments

  1. I guess Ukraine is more important, somehow

  2. They should do like the rest of us and get jobs. Maybe stop giving welfare to lazy people that wanna have kids they can't feed for an occupation..

  3. We were recently denied Medicaid benefits, and are entitled to an appeal. While making a phone call to contact the state agency for details about the process, one of the options to choose from was for refugee assistance. Ok, so we don't qualify income wise, that's fair, but any of us should absolutely qualify as American citizens BEFORE providing health care to those who are not legal, tax paying citizens of this country. Of course we can show up to a hospital to be treated for acute care, but then comes astronomical bills thereafter that are then reported to your credit when you cannot afford to pay. All this while the people that run our country have free health care for life, and would have zero perspective on the ramifications of making these financial decisions. It's disgusting and unAmerican.

  4. The pandemic is over, the rule was supposed to be temporary. This is a non-issue.

  5. As far as ACA goes, as long as your not in a opt out state before the pandemic happened. For those in opt out state even tho you can qualify federally you can get denied at the state level. Anyway.

  6. Lies, they just don’t want to lose the power that comes with an emergency act

  7. Single payer healthcare would be the best thing for businesses, employees, entrepreneurs, and people caring for others at home. assuming that businesses would no longer be allowed to provide special healthcare benefits to employees… employers wouldn’t need to make sure everyone works 40 hours a week in order to maximize their investments, meanwhile employees could take whichever job they like without worrying about gaps in healthcare or switching providers. People could quit jobs they hate to risk starting small businesses because they wouldn’t be worried about healthcare. Some people would quit jobs That they had so that they could take care of children or people who are infirm at home. Plus we would get rid of the massive inefficient insurance billing industry, as well as the insurance advertising industry and all the overhead in HR department.

  8. Billions this week expected to go to Ukraine once again. Come on people. The full faith and credit of the corporation called the United States is based off the blood, sweat and tears of the people. But we steadily let the politicians bamboozle us. 😢😢😢

  9. Every time you stand in one of those lines to vote for yet another person to make decisions for 'your life', please understand that you signed up for this.

  10. The first people who should lose Medicaid are all illegal aliens!!!! They need to stop all benefits for illegals!!! The only thing they are entitled to is immediate deportation!!!!!!

  11. Laughing at the democrats on medicaid who voted for Biden 🤣

  12. Thank your president everybody for sending all your money to another country and leaving you screwed.

  13. You guys put the wrong state initials on the picture. Alaska is AK NOT AL, isn’t this news station supposed to give accurate facts? That’s a pretty big error

  14. Some people may die because of this, I paid into the system for 45 years and now l need it because l was laid-off permanently. And can't find work at my age of 63 😕 ……If l can't have my medicine and my blood draw checks I'll die within several months 😪

  15. The GOP seditionists now want to put 15 million citizens on an ice flow.

  16. So you gonna tie Medicaid to pandemic power of control and the sheep don’t even realize it 😂. Tyranny coming soon

  17. This is going to be a disaster. 😢 More sickness and death! But that’s what they want, apparently. They want an excuse to move to total government controlled universal healthcare which will be SH*T for everyone (just ask Canada!). Any way you look at it, more death. 😢

  18. America is a shithole.

  19. Yet they've got millions upon millions to send to Ukraine. What a mf joke!

  20. If only we focused on health care and not aiding a foreign nation's war….smh… #Sanders2024

  21. This decrease is joe bidens fault .

  22. There not losing something they shouldn’t have had in first place id bet my check that there mostly ILLEGAL ALIENS

  23. Yep, time to get back to dying from "normal" preventable health complications. Of course, the lowest Covid death statistics were more preferable, may have even been mandatory. That most certainly isn't a "good look" in front of the rest of the world!!

  24. I see more red states on that map than blue states. This is what you get when you vote republican. Happy now republicans?

  25. All Democratic controlled States. Just saying. Let's see if my worthless Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham protects New Mexico or if she continues to follow Biden's shadow.

  26. Yup, "socialist" Biden talking away healthcare like he basically said he'd do… note there is absolutely ZERO criticism by the news anchors, only smiles… nothing but corporate tools owned by big pharma and health insurance companies…

  27. The whole thing seems to be a scam anyway. I've had seizures for 24 years and I never and will never qualify. "Doesn't meet alien or minority status." So yeah, I'm glad E.T. has to get a job. Being an extra terrestrial doesn't make you handicapped. Guess they're going to have to "phone home" for their free ride now. Lol

  28. Did you think it was gonna last forever???

  29. Which is ridiculous. I've had live savings treatments from my Medicaid. I'm afriad I might lose it

  30. Never trust the American government; if it isn’t a benefit to the house and senate they don’t care.

  31. why donate billions to other country and left the Americans behind? WHY?

  32. Thank God it looks like it's all the stupid States

  33. Can we quit pretending America is the best country in the world