State efforts to impose work requirements for Medicaid benefits is subject of lawsuit

Under the federal Medicaid statute 42 USC 1396__ there is a provision called “Section 1115 waiver” which is designed to enable States to try out variations on their Medicaid programs to reach broader segments of the population. The pertinent section of the Waiver is:  QUOTE HERE In mid-January this year, CMS announced a policy in which it authorized States to develop programs that would require certain Medicaid-eligible persons (non-elderly, non-disabled, non-pregnant adults) to be employed or to participate in ‘community engagement activities” such as skills training, education, volunteering, job-searching or caregiving, as a condition for ongoing receipt of Medicaid insurance benefits. Ten states have responded to date. The first such waiver request that was approved is Kentucky’s. Poor adults must be work or person community engagement activity  20 hours a week to retain their health insurance under Medicaid. Kentucky is also imposing…

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