Leah Morales, an operations manager in New York City, is one of those people. She had just found out she was pregnant when the pandemic took a terrible toll on her company, by whom she was previously insured. “We were told they could no longer insure us, and had to cut all full-time employees’ salaries and hours more than half,” she says. “So here I was, newly pregnant and uninsured.” (And having just taken a pay-cut.) Morales spent a month without insurance, eventually applying for Medicaid via New York State. What she didn’t realize, however, was that there are limited options in terms of clinics, hospitals and doctors who accept Medicaid.