WaExaminer: The Trump administration will support Medicaid work requirements despite such rules resulting in more than 12,000 people being knocked out of the program in Arkansas, a top health official said Tuesday.
“We remain steadfast in our belief that this policy is important for the program,” Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicaid Services, said in breakfast meeting with reporters Tuesday.
The requirements stipulate that certain enrollees work, volunteer, or take classes in order to stay enrolled in Medicaid, which is paid for by states and the federal government. Arkansas was the first state to take on the program, and more than 12,000 people were kicked off Medicaid within the first five months.
Verma said that the agency was still evaluating the causes behind the disenrollment, but that the administration was supportive of crafting Medicaid in a way that helped people move out of poverty. In most states, people qualify for Medicaid if they make less than roughly $17,000 a year, an expansion of the program implemented through Obamacare.
“It’s not clear of the circumstances of why people left,” Verma said of Arkansas, noting that the economy was doing well and that it was possible people obtained coverage through a job and no longer needed Medicaid. It was also possible that people opted not to participate in the requirements for the program, she said. more here
For pete’s sake!! Doesn’t ANYBODY realize that the shiite ain’t FREE if there are requirements…….
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
It’s a fine start, too bad some leftest will try and say its a constitutional right/gift and kill it with a left leaning judge practicing law on his own.
If it isn’t free socialists don’t want it.