Sunday, July 1, 2018

Judge Blocks Work Requirement for Medicaid in Kentucky

Beginning July 1st, able-bodied Medicaid recipients would have been hit with work requirements.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg thwarted that plan, ruling that the Trump White House failed to consider whether such an imposition violated the whole idea of Medicaid.

Judge James - who was appointed by Obama - certainly threw a wrench into President Trump's intention to reform Medicaid.

"States are the laboratories of democracy and numerous administrations have looked to them to develop and test reforms that have advanced the objectives of the Medicaid program. The Trump Administration is no different."

"There is a reason why no previous administration has approved the severe provisions Kentucky is so bent on pressing - they do not furnish health care services. Instead they punish the very populations Medicaid is intended to protect."

"At bottom, the record shows that 95,000 people would lose Medicaid coverage, and yet the Secretary paid no attention to that deprivation. Nor did he address how Kentucky HEALTH would otherwise help 'furnish medical assistance.'".

"Today's win means that at least 100,000 Kentucky residents will continue to be able to see their doctors, stay healthy, and take care of their families. Today's court decision emphasizes Medicaid's mission: Medicaid is about health insurance. Period".

https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/30/judge-james-boasberg-medicaid-work-requirement-kentucky-health/ 

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