Hundreds of thousands of Americans in Ohio have been rolled off a health care plan in the space of roughly two years, data from KFF, a nonprofit health policy research and news organization, has shown.

Around 600,000 Ohioans were disenrolled from the state's Medicaid program as part of the unwinding process happening nationwide after Medicaid coverage was expanded during the COVID pandemic.

Newsweek has contacted the Ohio Department of Health via email for comment.

Why It Matters

The unwinding process has resulted in significant drops in Medicaid enrollment across the U.S. in recent years. Rates of decline in enrollment vary widely between states, with millions removed from the Medicaid program over two years in highly populated states , while other states have seen smaller, but

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