seema — On July 24, 2020, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during an event in the South Court Auditorium in the White House complex in Washington.

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Millions of U.S. residents may lose medicaid next year

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When the federal government declared the COVID-19 pandemic a public health emergency, annual Medicaid “redeterminations” halted. But if the emergency expires in December, hundreds of thousands of poor and disabled Illinoisans will be kicked out of the government-funded healthcare plan.

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