In a world where your government actually cared about your life, it would try to make sure that poor people got health care during a pandemic. Especially when roughly the bottom quarter of the population will be losing health insurance.

The Urban Institute's Health Policy Center, an economic and social policy think tank, published a study last week on how the economic recession caused by COVID-19 could affect the health insurance coverage of Americans. The analysis found that between 25 million and 43 million Americans are at risk of losing, or have already lost, their health insurance, which is often tied directly to an individual's employer.
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"With 20 percent unemployment, we estimate that 25 million people would lose employer- sponsored health insurance. Of these, 11.8 million would gain Medicaid coverage, 6.2 million would gain marketplace or other private coverage, and 7.3 million would become uninsured," the analysis projected.

However, based on a range of factors, the analysis additionally projected that 20 percent unemployment could potentially lead to 43 million people losing insurance through their employers. Under that scenario, the analysis projects that 12.1 million would not be able to access Medicaid or enroll in insurance through the ACA.

We aren't talking about temporary unemployment numbers. It's estimated that of the 30+ million of the newly unemployed, that 42% won't be getting their jobs back.
Only about 79% of people expected to lose their employer-based insurance will be eligible for Medicaid or Obamacare.
These numbers are based under the assumption that Medicaid will be there for the poor. That appears to be a faulty assumption, because the state budgets are about to be crushed.

Medicaid, which is one of the largest programs funded by states, covers about 70 million low-income adults and children — the same population that has been hit hardest by the coronavirus. Though the federal government pays more than half of the Medicaid cost, governors ultimately determine the scope of the program in each state.

Several states have already announced cuts to their Medicaid programs and others are expected to follow. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, last week announced a $210 million cut to Medicaid over the next two months as the state adds more than 100,000 new Medicaid enrollments per month. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, announced a $183 million cut to the state's Medicaid program through June earlier this month as a key legislative committee estimated that 500,000 more people could enroll in the program this year. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, ordered agencies to prepare for 14% cuts across the board as the state's Medicaid enrollment is projected to spike by more than 560,000. Numerous other states are planning steep cuts as statewide lockdowns bleed budgets of much-needed tax revenue.

To put this into perspective, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study comparing infant mortality rates in the pre-Medicaid flu pandemic in 1957-58 and the post-Medicaid 1968-69 flu pandemic.

Not only did the introduction of Medicaid help save more children, but it also helped contain the disease spread among everyone else.
"After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic," the study said. "The reductions in pandemic infant mortality are too large to be attributable solely to new Medicaid recipients, suggesting that the expansion in health insurance coverage mitigated disease transmission among the broader population."

Imagine that. If you really wanted to save lives, you would make sure that everyone could get health care (as opposed "make health insurance affordable", which in the U.S. today is a meaningless nonsense political statement). This would benefit everyone in a pandemic, even non-poor people.
So what's happening is that the ruling elite (and even upper-middle class people) would rather endanger their own lives (not to mention see poor people suffer), than allow poor people to get needed health care.

Trump and the GOP has actively engaged in outright War Against Medicaid for four years now. So the chances that they'll lift a finger now to save Medicaid is near zero.
All House Democrats are proposing is subsidies to cover the full cost of COBRA, because that's what their donors want.

In a different but related study, states that expanded Medicaid saw a larger drop in cancer deaths than states that did not.