If you have the Essential Plan, the free, comprehensive state health insurance that about 1.7 million low-income New Yorkers rely on, mark July 1 on your calendar. Starting that day, roughly 450,000 people are being cut from the program, and many of them will not know until the coverage is already gone.

This is not because of anything you did. It is the result of federal funding cuts, and it affects enrollees above 200 percent of the federal poverty line, a little over $30,000 a year for a single person. The Essential Plan had been expanded to cover more working New Yorkers just above the old income limit, and this rollback removes that expansion group. You can be working a steady job that does not come with insurance and still land in the 450,000.

It falls hardest on immigrant New Yorkers. The reporting specifically flags DACA recipients among those losing the no-cost coverage, people who pay taxes and have built their lives here, now pushed off insurance with nowhere obvious to land.