Major Medicaid Cuts are the only way to meet House Budget Resolution requirements and the way that they are trying to do that is by adding work requirements for many low-income recipients who got coverage under Medicaid expansion, effectively removing them from the rolls.
Basically under this Bill, to get Medicaid, they'd have to prove they volunteered or went to school for 80 hours a month. That alone, is projected to cause 5 million Americans to lose coverage by the end of the decade.
The bill is targeting one specific group, which is able-bodied workers on a program that is intended (according to Mike Johnson) for single mothers with children that are simply wanting to make it. That is what Medicaid is for (Johnson said)), not for 29-yearold males sitting on a couch playing video games. The problem with that argument is that most Medicaid enrollees are working. The most recent data shows that 2 in 3 work, and most of the rest have a disability, are caring for family, or are attending school.
Here is all of that information (and more):
Basically under this Bill, to get Medicaid, they'd have to prove they volunteered or went to school for 80 hours a month. That alone, is projected to cause 5 million Americans to lose coverage by the end of the decade.
The bill is targeting one specific group, which is able-bodied workers on a program that is intended (according to Mike Johnson) for single mothers with children that are simply wanting to make it. That is what Medicaid is for (Johnson said)), not for 29-yearold males sitting on a couch playing video games. The problem with that argument is that most Medicaid enrollees are working. The most recent data shows that 2 in 3 work, and most of the rest have a disability, are caring for family, or are attending school.
Here is all of that information (and more):
