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by Dylan Scott
The Trump administration still has big plans for putting restrictions on Medicaid.
Congress failed to repeal Obmacare and its Medicaid expansion or institute federal spending caps for the whole program. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will still have broad authority to reshape the low-income insurance program, which covers 70 million Americans, in Trump's image.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma laid out her vision in a speech today to the National Association of Medicaid Directors. One line stuck out above the rest.
CMS believes that meaningful work is essential to beneficiaries economic self-sufficiency, self-esteem, well-being, and health of Americans," Verma said.
The message was clear, I think: State-proposed work requirements for Medicaid would be approved by this administration.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/7/16620440/voxcare-medicaid-work-requirements-trump
samnsara
(17,640 posts)...it will kill her. So whats she supposed to do for work? Phone sex work?
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)onethatcares
(16,188 posts)double shifts, but what the hell, she don't need no kind of life.
She should have become a politician.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)progree
(10,920 posts)according to this deplorable POS:
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