Trump storms ahead with Medicaid work rules, even though they're disastrous for enrollees

[riversedge]

I am finding this photo to be sickening.

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Trump storms ahead with Medicaid work rules, even though they’re disastrous for enrollees


By Michael Hiltzik
Nov 26, 2018 | 6:30 AM

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, who is overseeing approval of work requirement for the program, listens admiringly to President Trump during a White House meeting in 2017. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)





Ignoring empirical evidence that it’s fomenting a healthcare catastrophe, and a federal judge’s warning that it’s legally out of line, the Trump administration has quietly reapproved a punitive work requirement for Medicaid clients in Kentucky.

The approval came just before the Thanksgiving holiday. That’s timing you use only in the hope that you’ll be able to sneak through a policy without anybody noticing.

But this is such a cynical and malevolent policy that healthcare advocates did notice. That happened partially because data from Arkansas, the only other state given permission by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicaid work requirements, show that its system is throwing residents off Medicaid by the thousands.

[area51]

1. F this conflation that if you don't work,

you don't deserve healthcare. Medicare for All now!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Many folks on Medicaid can't work...

Repubs are just sick. Sick of mind, sick of heart, sick of spirit.

Trump is the worst of them all. Oh, he and fucking McConnell.

[AJT]

3. Hurting poor people is the point.

If 45 could open dickensian work houses he would.