This headline is false: After a 3-year break, 84 million Americans on Medicaid are suddenly at risk of getting kicked off their insurance

As of January 2023, an estimated 86 million people were enrolled in Medicaid in the U.S.

Source: January 2023 Medicaid & CHIP Enrollment Data Highlights | Medicaid

What is happening – states stopped reviewing Medicaid enrollees to see if they still qualified because the Federal government forbid them to drop anyone during the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is over and Federal money printing is coming to an end, states are reviewing all enrollees to see if they still qualify.

Some enrollees will lose access to Medicaid because they no longer qualify, and some may lose access due to errors in the verification system.

The claim that 84 mill will lose their Medicaid benefits, as described in the yellow journalism headline is false.

This AP story headline, written by Amanda Seitz and Anita Snow assumes 100% of those receiving Medicare will lose all benefits and Medicaid will cease to exist anywhere in the country. The story, typical of bad reporting, strings together anecdotes but is devoid of actual data – and thus leads to a false yellow journalism headline conclusion: 84 million Americans will lose Medicaid benefits.

This is AP news report is literally the definition of misinformation and yellow journalism.