Mississippi’s New Medicaid Redetermination Is Evil

Medicaid is a public health-insurance program for Americans with limited income and resources, including eligible low-income adults, children, the elderly, pregnant women and people living with disabilities. The U.S. government and states jointly fund the program. Redeterminations of eligibility are conducted annually, but they were suspended in March 2020 for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, all states are required to resume the process beginning on April 1, 2023. Since then, the Division of Medicaid in Mississippi has secretly commenced a new wave of redeterminations, removing 18,710 children from the program, with more child disenrollments likely to come.