WASHINGTON - Medicaid, the largest budget item in most states, provides health insurance to roughly 70 million poor adults, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities. As millions come on to the Medicaid roles due to the loss of jobs created by coronavirus, the program will be gutted. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stated that “The cruel nature of the economic downturn is that at a time when you need a social safety net is also the time when revenues shrink.” State Medicaid programs in the last economic crisis cut everything from dental services to podiatry care — and reduced payments to hospitals and doctors to balance out spending on other needs like roads, schools, and prisons, but according to Medicaid officials, the gutting could be far worse this time.

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