New @AnnalsofIM study from PNHP co-founders Drs. @swoolhandler and David Himmelstein estimates 7.3M Americans will lose health coverage by June 30, because of the #COVID19 pandemic. bit.ly/2Xe6QHz 
1.5M American workers have already lost coverage, just in the last two weeks, and the looming #COVID19 recession will likely cause another 5.7M to lose their employer-sponsored health benefits.
Overwhelming as these figures are, they *underestimate* the full coverage losses, since they don't include dependent family members who will lose coverage, nor do they include self-employed workers who do not file unemployment claims.
Coverage losses will be even steeper in the 14 states that have refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA. In those states, 22.6% of the newly-unemployed are likely to lose all coverage.
To quickly get more people covered, we recommend that Congress pass an emergency measure authorizing Medicare coverage for everyone who is uninsured. And those states that have refused to expand Medicaid should do so immediately.
But ultimately we need to implement a #SinglePayer national health program that covers *every* U.S. resident for their entire lives, regardless of what happens in the economy. It has never been more clear that access to health care should *not* be tied to employment.
