The Effects of Medicaid on the Quality of the Program

There was a sort of temporary pause to the normal way that Medicaid works as a program and then we were sort of seeing and waiting for a long time, like when is the shoe going to drop, right? Like we knew that there were certain sundowns for certain programs. The simple act of at least the federal government saying do not drop people for an quote unquote no longer qualifying made it possible for Medicaid enrollment overall to rise about 27.9% from its February 2020 level to a high of 90.9 million people enrolled in Medicaid programs. No one was ever talking about fundamentally changing the rules around Medicaid to shift to like a new equilibrium where you didn't have all of these eligibility