The Medicare-for-All movement may be gaining steam, but so is it's evil counterpoint: the Medicaid for None movement.
It doesn't formally go by that name, of course. It cloaks itself as a noble and long-overdue campaign to make lazy welfare moochers go out and get a job by imposing work requirements as a condition for Medicaid eligibility.
Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says the purpose of work requirements is to “help lift individuals out of the shadows of opportunity and into its light.”
Before the squatter currently occupying the White House took over, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services never gave a state government permission to impose Medicaid work requirements. But now, seven states have the green light.
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