Florida’s Medicaid Unwinding Lacks Fundamental Safeguards And Can Harm Population Health

In August 2023, Florida became the first state to face litigation over its Medicaid unwinding process.  Writing in HEALTH AFFAIRS FOREFRONT, Leighton Ku, MaryBeth Muscumeci and Sara Rosenbaum discuss  the likely population health effects of Florida’s Medicaid unwinding on people losing coverage, based on data from the first several months of unwinding.