Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, released this week as Right-wing lawmakers pursue the conditions imposed on Americans' ability to access Medicaid and other social services. analysis Job requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries warn that 36 million Americans, or 44% of all Medicaid enrollees, are at risk of losing their health insurance.
“Requirements for the study show that they do not increase employment,” according to the authors of the CBPP report published Wednesday. The authors argue that these types of requirements are based on the assumption that Medicaid subscribers will not work if the data is shown to be.
“Two out of three adult Medicaid enrollees aged 19-64 are already working, with most remaining explicitly covering requirements based on disability, family care, or street to school. It won't be,” the report said.
The group estimates that out of the 36 million potentially affected, 20 million people are registered through Medicaid, an Affordable Care Act. expansion.
According to the CBPP, almost all Medicaid enrollees are eligible for exemptions under most Medicaid work requirements proposals, but many enrollees “due to the imposition of labor requirements due to administrative burdens and “administrative burdens.” We report several previous examples showing that we have lost compensation. Red tape. ”
For example, when Arkansas temporarily implemented a policy that placed labor requirements on Medicaid recipients in 2018, approximately 25% of the required enrollees, and approximately 18,000 people, had temporarily moved to the program in seven months. I lost compensation before it stopped.
As another example, New Hampshire implemented the short-lived Medicaid work requirements program in 2019, making reporting requirements and “more robust outreach efforts” more flexible to avoid Arkansas' mistakes. Complying with requirements “As a report of widespread confusion among enrollees about how to comply with requirements, they are likely to be fired in just two months.”
The analysis the authors say is not an estimate of the number of people affected by a particular policy proposal, but the population at risk of losing compensation as adults between the ages of 19 and 64 who are not registered with Medicaid through disability. is defined. The route, namely the broader net of people than has been specifically targeted in recent GOP proposals.
The number of 36 million is Previous CBPP estimation It was in response to specific proposals that covered work requirements. Less than that.
Several recent GOP proposals on Medicaid work requirements target “healthy” workers, although varying depending on other details.
Extremely right Policy Blueprint “Project 2025” calls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “to clarify that states have the ability to employ work incentives for competent individuals.” Congressional Republicans in late January I passed Focusing on a list of ideas on how to fund invoice Full of GOP priorities including impose Medicaid work requirements on unaddicted, “healthy” adults, modelled after the bill was passed By house 2023.
Thursday, John Kennedy Send (r-la.) and Eric Schmidt (r-mo.) Reintroduced Medicaid Act jobs and opportunities, and bills You will need it “A healthy adult with no dependents who benefit from Medicaid at least 20 hours a week.”
The Kennedy and Schmidt bill includes exemptions for adults with dependents, which will affect fewer people than the CBPP's Thursday analysis. Still, a common question is, according to the authors of the analysis, “work requirements are simply another way to reduce Medicaid.” The Republican January list of cost-cutting options was estimated to bring $100 billion in 10 years of savings if added to Medicaid labor requirements along those specified in the limits.
Friday letter All 47 members of Senate Democrats wrote to Senate Majority Leader John Tune (Rs.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), all of the 47 members of Senate Democrats wrote: We continue to advocate for priorities and the importance of this important program. ”
