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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why will the medicaid provisions hurt rural hospitals?  Is it because there are no jobs for the able-bodied to do, thus they cannot meet the work requirements?  Or is it that illegal alien farm workers / factory workers are on Medicaid in these rural areas?[/quote]

Because their patients will no longer have any way to pay for care.[/quote]

What specific provisions of the bill would make their patients ineligible for Medicaid? [/quote]

Read the bill. The GOP is installing new barriers to receive monies.[/quote]

I have - able-bodied must work and no illegals.  What else am I missing?[/quote]

The administrative requirements are so burdensome that even people eligible for the program may not be able to enroll. That’s a feature, not a bug. Republicans don’t want people to use Medicaid or food stamps, even if they are eligible. [/quote]

Yes. That's a way to trim the cost of Medicaid, SS and Medicare. Make it so difficult to use that many qualified people won't be using it.[/quote]

So these beneficiaries who were competent and capable enough to enroll are not competent or capable enough to maintain enrollment?  Or, maybe, the current lax standards for enrollment led to fraud?[/quote]

From NYT article:

The two states that have actually put in work requirements show some of the hurdles that others could face.

When Arkansas started a work requirement in 2018, state officials worked hard to educate the public — mailing letters, sending emails, placing phone calls, briefing medical providers, posting on social media sites, distributing fliers. Still, around the time the program began, only about half of eligible people knew whether the work requirement applied to them. The website used to document work hours was not designed for smartphones and was routinely taken offline at night for maintenance.

Almost none of the people who were required to report work hours under the system did so in the first months of the program, and 17,000 people lost coverage before the program was stopped by a federal judge.

Georgia expanded Medicaid coverage in 2023 for low-income people who could prove they were working. But the state’s sign-up system is often glitchy. Documents that seem to upload sometimes don’t, or they are reviewed so late that a person trying to sign up has already missed a deadline, according to Cynthia Gibson, a managing attorney at the Georgia Legal Services Program, who has helped some Georgians appeal their denials. Only around 7,400 people have enrolled so far; the state expected around 100,000.
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