When the Covid emergency designation expires, millions of people in the United States could lose their healthcare

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage when the US government's pandemic health emergency proclamation expires, with potentially disastrous implications.

If the Covid-19 public health emergency is not prolonged, an estimated 5.3 million to 14.2 million people might lose Medicaid coverage, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

The large range is due to uncertainties about how states wil....