The Trump Administration's Decision to Require Employment as a Medicaid Coverage Prerequisite: An Interview with Prof. Sara Rosenbaum (February 21st)
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Listen Now In a letter last March to state Medicaid directors by then DHHS Secretary Tom Price and CMS Administrator Seema Verma telegraph the administration's intent to radically redefine the Medicaid program. Believing the ACA's expansion of the Medicaid program was, per the March letter, a "clear departure from the core, historical mission of the program," administration officials telegraphed they were preparing to reinvent the program by, in part, requiring work or community engagement for abled-body adults as a precondition for Medicaid coverage. Historically, the Medicaid program was intended to strengthen and increase coverage for the poor. In a nine-page, January 11 letter to state Medicaid directors, Ms. Verma announced, "a new policy to assist states in their efforts to improve Medicaid enrollee health and well-being through incentivizing work and community engagement." That there is no evidence that work improves health status, the January 11th letter stated "work . . may improve health outcomes," on January 12th CMS approved a Kentucky waiver to require employment as a prerequisite for Medicaid coverage despite state officials recognizing through the course of the waiver's implementation 15 percent of abled-body Kentuckians would lose coverage.
The Trump Administration's Decision to Require Employment as a Medicaid Coverage Prerequisite: An Interview with Prof. Sara Rosenbaum (February 21st)
The Trump Administration's Decision to…
The Trump Administration's Decision to Require Employment as a Medicaid Coverage Prerequisite: An Interview with Prof. Sara Rosenbaum (February 21st)
Listen Now In a letter last March to state Medicaid directors by then DHHS Secretary Tom Price and CMS Administrator Seema Verma telegraph the administration's intent to radically redefine the Medicaid program. Believing the ACA's expansion of the Medicaid program was, per the March letter, a "clear departure from the core, historical mission of the program," administration officials telegraphed they were preparing to reinvent the program by, in part, requiring work or community engagement for abled-body adults as a precondition for Medicaid coverage. Historically, the Medicaid program was intended to strengthen and increase coverage for the poor. In a nine-page, January 11 letter to state Medicaid directors, Ms. Verma announced, "a new policy to assist states in their efforts to improve Medicaid enrollee health and well-being through incentivizing work and community engagement." That there is no evidence that work improves health status, the January 11th letter stated "work . . may improve health outcomes," on January 12th CMS approved a Kentucky waiver to require employment as a prerequisite for Medicaid coverage despite state officials recognizing through the course of the waiver's implementation 15 percent of abled-body Kentuckians would lose coverage.