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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great article demonstrating that Medicaid “work requirements” are actually just bureaucratic red tape designed to trip people up so they can be kicked out of the program:

https://www.propublica.or...nial-video
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Not just that. There are things like requiring recertification every 6 months minimum instead of annually. People are still supposed to report changes in income, etc but the full review of income, assets, household members, utilities, etc, etc typically happens once a year. Currently if you apply for medicaid they will go back 3 months for coverage (you still have to provide income etc), that will change to one month. People on Medicaid expansion or Chip who have premium payments and miss payments currently can restore coverage for up to a 3 month gap, that will go to one month as well. 
Besides the recertification, there are a bunch of extra things they are going to make states do to confirm provider and recipient eligibility. This is already done but they want to double down on it. The state administrative burden between those things and work documentation will increase states' administrative costs.

By the way: 70% of medicaid recipients are on some kind of managed care plan. You can be sure the insurance companies have plenty of ways to make bank (like the medicare advantage companies that add phony chronic diseases to people to get a higher capitation payment and then deny rehab care after some old person is discharged from the hospital after a stroke). [/quote]

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