🚨 Woman Says Her Daughter Can't Get Off Medicaid, Even Though She Doesn't Need It🚨

She has a full-time job and private insurance, so why can’t she get off Medicaid?

LANSING, Mich — A Michigan mother says her daughter has been stuck on Medicaid for over a year, even though she doesn’t qualify, doesn’t want it, and can’t seem to get off it.

Sue StClaire told the Keeping It Real Show that her daughter, who works full-time with employer-sponsored health benefits, was unexpectedly enrolled in Medicaid after briefly being unemployed in early 2023. According to StClaire, her daughter visited the federal healthcare marketplace to review options during her job transition and input a temporary income estimate that may have triggered an automatic referral to Medicaid.

“She never applied for it,” StClaire said. “She just looked on the marketplace, and next thing she knows, a Medicaid card shows up in the mail.”

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The card was retroactively activated to June 1, 2023, even though her daughter secured new employment shortly after. Despite multiple attempts to notify the state that she no longer needed the coverage, StClaire says her daughter has remained enrolled.

“She called the 800 number and told them she didn’t need it, that she had employer-sponsored insurance,” said StClaire. “They told her not to worry about it.”

But come tax season, the issue resurfaced. StClaire’s daughter received IRS Form 1095s from both her employer and Medicaid. She was also listed as receiving $250-a-month subsidized coverage through the marketplace, benefits she says she never paid for or used.

StClaire worries that cases like her daughter’s inflate enrollment numbers and could misrepresent the true need for Medicaid services in Michigan.

“There must be some benefit to the state having people on Medicaid,” she said. “Maybe they get more federal funding based on enrollment numbers, whether people use it or not.”

Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income Americans, underwent major enrollment changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under federal emergency rules, states were required to keep beneficiaries continuously enrolled. That policy expired in April 2023, triggering a nationwide “unwinding” process to reassess eligibility for over 90 million people.

According to KFF Health News, as of July 2025, more than 21 million people across the U.S. have been removed from Medicaid rolls. Still, many enrollees like StClaire’s daughter say they haven’t been able to opt out voluntarily.

“She’s never once used the card. It’s still attached to the paper it came with,” said StClaire. “She just keeps getting re-enrolled every year.”

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has not publicly responded to claims like StClaire’s, though they say the state has removed hundreds of thousands of residents from Medicaid during the post-pandemic redetermination process.

StClaire believes reform is needed to ensure benefits go only to those who need them. “It’s not about politics,” she said. “The system is just broken.”

She supports recent legislative efforts to tighten eligibility reviews and implement work requirements, saying, “If you don’t need it, you shouldn’t be on it.. plain and simple.”

StClaire says she’s keeping every letter and document her daughter has received “as proof she never used it.” She hopes lawmakers take cases like hers seriously and make changes to prevent taxpayer-funded benefits from going to the wrong people.