She lives in Texas. 13M people were just dropped from Medicaid for being over the income limits There was a federal program during covid to keep people from being dropped,but that expired. During covid, minimum wage and inflation took over, but no one raised the maximum limits on programs like medicaid. Before covid, the max might have been $14k or so per year but that was what people might make on min wage, but now with min wage going way up in many states, people making min wage no longer qualify.
The article I read said she had insurance but when covid hit she lost all her speaking engagements and couldn’t afford insurance at $800+ per month. It was also about the time she got divorced, so her expenses went up and her income went down. Also about that time (2018?) a lot of individual insurers dropped private coverage. My brother is self employed and his company just went out of business and he didn’t know it. He probably could have been more diligent, but her went for a year without, and I just reminded him this Dec to sign up and he did.