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Today, I am here with my co-hosts, Artie Virkant.

Hello.

And Phil Rocco.

Hi.

And the three of us will be checking back in on what may turn out to be the largest concentrated

loss of health insurance coverage in U.S. history, which has been dubbed the Medicaid

unwinding.

So this unwinding that we've been covering since earlier in the year is the ongoing rolling mass

disenrollment of people from state social safety net health insurance programs under Medicaid.

Since we last spoke about the unwinding, the number of people confirmed to be kicked off

of Medicaid has risen to 5 million people so far, and it's looking like one-third of those people are children based on

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