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The state government promoted the law as a way to bolster self-sufficiency in the state’s poorest population, targeting specifically those who received health insurance under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. . Administration officials insist that Medicaid is a welfare program, and so they can provide state’s waivers that allow them to amend the program and add work requirements.
“There’s a similar lack of consideration of what the impact would be on coverage in New Hampshire,” said Sarah Somers, the managing attorney for the National Health Law Program, a group that is working on all three cases. “We will continue to defend our efforts to give states greater flexibility to help low income Americans rise out of poverty,” Verma said in a statement in response to the Kentucky and Arkansas ruling. “We believe, as have numerous past Administrations, that states are the laboratories of democracy and we will vigorously support their innovative, state-driven efforts to develop and test reforms that will advance the objectives of the Medicaid program.
What happens next for Arkansas and Kansas remains unclear, but it could have major and immediate implications for thousands of people. More than 16,000 Arkansans who used Medicaid prior to the work requirements are still without it even after the ruling.
Seems like the anecdotal example given in the article was a communication problem, not anything Trump did.
Power back to the States is a good thing unless you favor over controlling, power hungry over reaching Socialists gov
In a way, yes. You can thank all those who scam the system for this. Not Trump. One kid in the class misbehaves and they all get punished. Sad but true. For some no incentive to work and others can’t find work.
Of course it does. The point of the program is to addict people to handouts and give the Democrats an insurmountable electoral advantage.
Angry at the poor for being poor.
Hello what's up girl
Who cares. It’s a sh*t program to begin with.
no it was done with bill clinton and it was seccessfull
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