Trump administration opens door to let states impose Medicaid work requirements
Source: Washington Post
The Trump administration issued guidance to states early Thursday that will allow them to compel people to work or prepare for jobs in order to receive Medicaid for the first time in the half-century history of this pillar of the nation’s social safety net.
The letter to state Medicaid directors opens the door for states to cut off Medicaid benefits to Americans unless they have a job, are in school, are a caregiver or participate in other approved forms of “community engagement” — an idea that some states had broached over the past several years but that the Obama administration had consistently rebuffed.
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Unlike the 1996 rewrite of welfare law, which explicitly mentions work as a goal, Medicaid’s law contains no such element, and critics contend rules that could deny people coverage contradict its objectives. To get around this, the 10-page letter argues that working promotes good health and repeatedly asserts that the change fits within the program’s objectives. The guidance cites research that it says demonstrates people who work tend to have higher incomes associated with longer life spans, while those who are unemployed are more prone to depression, “poorer general health,” and even death.
“[A] growing body of evidence suggests that targeting certain health determinants, including productive work and community engagement, may improve health outcomes” the letter says. “While high-quality health care is important for an individual’s health and well-being, there are many other determinants of health.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-opens-door-to-let-states-impose-medicaid-work-requirements/2018/01/11/d6374482-f628-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?utm_term=.3e005eef689c
So now people will die in the streets simply because they have no job.
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That's true for SSI and SSDI, but I don't think it is true for Medicaid. My understanding is that Medicaid is tied to income -- below a certain threshold you are qualified (138% of federal poverty level) in Medicaid expansion states, much less, and varying by state for non-expansion states.
A friend of mine works and gets Medicaid (and didn't lie about it on her application). Makes a couple $thou less than the 138% threshold in our Medicaid expansion state (Minnesota)
MUCH MUCH MORE: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/
Uggh. In a lot of states, there is no coverage for childless adults based on income. One has to qualify in other ways like disability, SSI, ...
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From: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/fact-sheet/where-are-states-today-medicaid-and-chip/
The Trump Files: When Donald Took Revenge by Cutting Off Health Coverage for a Sick Infant
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/
What a complete unadulterated asshole---------------FUCK YOU TRUMP , your still a fucking sexual predator and a TRAITOR
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................
could literally be a matter of life or death now. I hope the blue states don't participate in this cruelty.
And, who determines whether the person is able-bodied?
Oh, and Slimy Worma is a ghoul.
Oh, and all this so that money can be shoveled upwards.
I hope 'Murica has had enough of puke policies by now. Of course, that should have been the case at the raygun stage of the malignancy.
