Burying the Lede

Over at The New York Times, they have an article about how Obamacare enrollment is surging.

What they bury, in the 2nd and 3rd to last paragraphs in the article, are the reason that this is happening.

People are being thrown off Medicaid in record numbers:

………

The Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces have become particularly valuable to the people losing Medicaid coverage this year after a federal policy that guaranteed coverage earlier in the pandemic lapsed in April.

The millions of people dropping off Medicaid rolls has contributed to the uptick in marketplace enrollment, Ms. Cox said, and to surges during normally sleepier periods outside open enrollment. (Certain life events, such as the sudden loss of other health coverage, allow some Americans to get new plans outside the open enrollment period.)

(emphasis mine)

The lede should be, "Millions forced off Medicaid," not, "Americans Are Signing Up for Obamacare in Record Numbers."

This is journalistic and editorial malpractice.