Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing people from the program, even if they were not legally entitled to it.

At the time, Democrats portrayed this stark reduction in Medicaid’s rolls as a humanitarian crisis and urged states to delay the unwinding. “I am deeply concerned with the number of people unnecessarily losing coverage,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra told governors in June of last year. 

But judging from the new analysis, that crisis never materialized. For the most part, people who left Medicaid got coverage elsewhere.

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