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CLASP submitted comments to Michigan on their Section 1115 demonstration extension application.
CLASP submitted comments to Tennessee on their Amendment 38 to the TennCare II demonstration.
CLASP submitted comments on Virginia’s COMPASS 1115 Demonstration Extension Application.
Arkansas could take away Medicaid from over 5,000 people because of red tape with its new "work requirement" policy.
“'Work requirements in Medicaid will result in many people losing coverage, in most cases simply because of the red tape and bureaucratic reporting requirements, and relatively few for not meeting the requirement to work,' wrote Suzanne Wikle in her policy brief in April for the Center for Law and Social Policy."
Recent activities show that Congressional Republicans have not abandoned their legislative goals of rolling back the ACA and block granting Medicaid even while the Trump Administration has shifted this year to undermining our health care safety net through Medicaid waivers, regulatory retrenchment and litigation.
South Dakota is the latest state to propose taking away health care from low-income parents who don’t work a specific number of hours.
Medicaid is under siege again after several failed attempts by Congress last year to drastically restructure it. This time, states are on the attack, with the blessing and encouragement of the federal CMS. Many states are seeking waivers to drastically change Medicaid’s eligibility criteria by disenrolling people who don’t work enough hours.
Eleven states have asked permission from CMS to disenroll people who don’t work a certain number of hours each week or month. So far, three states Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas have received CMS approval. These states are embarking on work that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and result in fewer people having health insurance.
“In non-expansion states the families we are talking about who would be subject to the work requirement are really the poorest families,” said Suzanne Wikle. “They are struggling to make ends meet on a daily basis.”