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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/25/1735977/-Kentuckians-bring-first-suit-against-Trump-s-Medicaid-work-requirementsKentuckians bring first suit against Trump's Medicaid work requirements
By Joan McCarter
Thursday Jan 25, 2018 · 3:33 PM EST
People protest Trump administration policies that threaten the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid, near the Wilshire Federal Building on January 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. / AFP / DAVID MCNEW (Photo credit should read DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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More than a dozen Kentucky Medicaid enrollees are suing their Republican governor, Matt Bevin, over his newly imposed work requirements for the program. This is the first legal test of the Trump administration's new rules allowing states to impose restrictions that might be in conflict with the Medicaid statute.
About 350,000 Kentuckians would be subject to the work requirements, according to the states waiver application. In five years, the plan is expected to reduce Kentuckys Medicaid enrollment by about 95,000 and save $2.4 billion.
The groups bringing the suit are the National Health Law Program, Kentucky Equal Justice Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
True to Republican form, Bevin has attempted to raise the stakes ahead of this inevitable legal challenge with extortion. He's announced that any legal judgement going against him on the work requirements will result in his ending Medicaid expansion all together. That would take health care away from about half a million Kentuckians.
The Kentucky plaintiffs and the groups joining them aren't bowing to his threats, which is good. The legal fight might deter some other states from following down this path.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)Clearly Im in the wrong, but if you sue me...well Im taking away the expansions.
What...an...asshole!!
The Polack MSgt
(13,189 posts)Personally, I want to file wrongful death lawsuits against every Republican in office.
How many preventable deaths have they caused in the last 370 days?
Any Chip parents out there who lost a child?
Families who had a chronic asthma sufferer who made less than 138% of the federal poverty line who passed away in Republican states where they refused to expand Medicaid?
Diabetics who were forced to skimp on treatment because they can't afford it- who lost legs or eyesight, or their LIVES, when a person in a non Republican state would've been treated?
Get some lawyers and press the case - Republicans are killing poor people just for the sheer joy of it. I swear that they are all anti-porn because THEY get hard on the thought of inflicting misery.
The Polack MSgt
(13,189 posts)This should be read