On
Thursday, Trump’s administration stated that it’ll be allowing states to impose
work requirements for recipients of Medicaid, in a shift which would have an effect
on millions of low-income individuals who receive benefits.
Medicaid:
it’s a federal-state collaboration that covers over 70 million individuals, or
1 in 5 people in America, which makes it the biggest government health
insurance plan. During the Obama administration, it was expanded, when an option
was offered to open the door to states to cover millions of more low-income
Americans.
Under
this policy, states have to completely comply with federal laws concerning
disability and civil rights to make sure that disabled people have the
protections to ensure they aren’t denied coverage. States must provide
modifications to folks who have disabilities and will have to exempt people who
were determined to be “medically frail” or those having an “acute condition” which
could prevent them from complying with these new requirements.
For
almost a year, Trump’s administration has been very vocal regarding adding these
new requirements, yet a non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation study uncovered
that over 50% of working-aged citizens on Medicaid already are employed. Almost
60% work either part time or full time, mostly for employers who don’t provide
health insurance. According to the study, most who aren’t working report
reasons such as going to school, caring for a family member, or an illness.
Also,
in 2017, Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a poll that uncovered that 70% of
the public support permitting states to impose work requirements upon Medicaid
beneficiaries.
It’s
a major change in Medicaid that would permit individuals to be cut off for not
meeting work requirements, irrespective of the hardship they might experience.
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