Joshua Davis recently got kicked off Medicaid.

The state of New Mexico where he lives says he makes too much money.

I make like 16, 15 hour.

Davis has an autoimmune disease, and now that he's lost Medicaid, the treatment gets

expensive quickly.

He bought private insurance, but the monthly premiums are already blowing up his budget.

I didn't really have to worry about the costs of my specialty appointments, you know,

all the blood work, and then getting their medication for it until now, and I'm actually

having to jump through just a lot of hoops with my new insurance because they don't

want to pay for it.

During the pandemic, people like Josh couldn't be kicked off Medicaid.

The federal government had declared a public health emergency because of COVID, and wanted

people to stay covered as the virus swept the country.

But that ended earlier this year, and since then, more than seven million people have

been dropped from Medicaid.

So even though the state is well aware of my condition, they weren't going to let me

keep Medicaid anyways.

They were just basically like, well, now you make too much money in our eyes, so that sucks

for you.

On top of losing Medicaid, the amount of benefits he was receiving for food assistance

was also cut after the pandemic emergency declaration ended.

He went from close to $300 a month to like $23 a month.

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