JAMA Forum

New Medicaid Enrollment Barriers and Lessons From Unwinding

JAMA Health Forum 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.4849

September 04, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This JAMA Forum discusses changes in enrollment across the individual states after unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage provision and the new enrollment barriers imposed after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Corresponding Author: Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (bsommers@hsph.harvard.edu).

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