Team Trump has big plans to shrink Medicaid with work requirements

[n2doc]

by Dylan Scott

The Trump administration still has big plans for putting restrictions on Medicaid.

Congress failed to repeal Obmacare and its Medicaid expansion or institute federal spending caps for the whole program. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will still have broad authority to reshape the low-income insurance program, which covers 70 million Americans, in Trump's image.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma laid out her vision in a speech today to the National Association of Medicaid Directors. One line stuck out above the rest.

“CMS believes that meaningful work is essential to beneficiaries’ economic self-sufficiency, self-esteem, well-being, and health of Americans," Verma said.

The message was clear, I think: State-proposed work requirements for Medicaid would be approved by this administration.


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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/7/16620440/voxcare-medicaid-work-requirements-trump

[samnsara]

1. my sis is on medicaid because shes so allergic to the sun...

...it will kill her. So whats she supposed to do for work? Phone sex work?

[leftofcool]

2. I guess granny could mop up the nursing home floor or clean the toilets.

[onethatcares]

3. she'd have to work

double shifts, but what the hell, she don't need no kind of life.

She should have become a politician.

[Zen Democrat]

4. How about paranoid schizophrenics? Are they supposed to work?

[progree]

5. Well, covering more people is a hollow victory of numbers

according to this deplorable POS:

In a statement distributed to reporters Tuesday morning, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma called the goal of covering more people a “hollow victory of numbers,” and instead called for changes that “reduce federal regulatory burdens, increase efficiency, and promote transparency and accountability.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/medicaid-work-verma-cms-hhs