The latest snapshot shows a lot fewer people are on Pennsylvania’s state health insurance rolls. The Department of Human Services last week said nearly 500 thousand people have been dropped from the state’s Medicaid program because of the end of the coronavirus. During COVID, the federal and state governments expanded Medicaid to cover more people. That coverage ended with the end of the president’s coronavirus emergency order. In Pennsylvania, that meant the Medicaid rolls shrank from three-point-seven million people to three-point-two million. The DHS says it’s now trying to help many of those people as they transition to other coverage, or re-apply for Medicaid.
