Anna Wilde-Mathews
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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Hospitals are legally required to treat and stabilize people when they show up in the emergency room, whether or not they can pay, whether or not they have insurance.
Hospitals are the place that people go, whether they have insurance or not, when they really must have care.
And hospitals are legally required to treat and stabilize people when they show up in the emergency room, whether or not they can pay, whether or not they have insurance.
So the hospital companies feel that because people are doing that.
They're showing up, they're needing care, and they're getting care, but the hospitals are not necessarily getting paid for that.
So it's been eight months since the subsidies ended.
Why is this happening now?
One reason that it really started hitting much harder in the second quarter is that, first of all, not everyone dropped the coverage right away.
Some people maybe took a little while into the year before they figured out how much they were going to have to pay.
Another thing is that the Affordable Care Act has a grace period built in, so it wasn't clear to hospitals necessarily who had coverage and who didn't really until the second quarter.
It's hard to tell exactly, but definitely there's a prediction that more people will lose insurance.
The Congressional Budget Office projects another 4.1 million people will become uninsured in 2027.
And the fact is that some people who have Medicaid now may not be able to meet the requirements.
Some may just fail to do so, even if they could have.
and they will likely lose insurance.
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