Add work requirements to Medicaid
What the document says“Add work requirements and match Medicaid benefits to beneficiary needs.”
The chapter proposes that states be allowed to run what it calls a personal option letting families use Medicaid dollars to buy coverage outside the program, that private insurance options and health savings account style arrangements be allowed, that benefit mandates exceeding the private market be removed for able-bodied recipients, and that eligibility determinations and asset tests be strengthened.
What the document actually says“Add work requirements and match Medicaid benefits to beneficiary needs.”
Make some people work to get Medicaid. Match what they get to what they need.
Medicaid pays for health care for poor people. The book says some should have to work to get it. It also wants benefits matched to need.
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