Posted on 01/19/2018 7:14:15 AM PST by spintreebob
Kentucky’s new Medicaid waiver will ask low-income people to jump over hurdles to keep their coverage. Evidence suggests that many will fail.
Washington State ..Instead of requiring people to establish eligibility annually, began requiring them to do so twice a year, and added some paperwork. It worked: Enrollment in the health insurance program fell by more than 40,000 children in a year.
Louisiana wanted to maximize the number of eligible children who signed up for coverage, so officials simplified the sign-up process. It also worked: Enrollment surged, and the number of administrative cancellations fell by 20 percentage points.
In 2006, Congress asked states to verify the citizenship of beneficiaries by seeking their birth certificates. Across the country, children’s Medicaid enrollment dropped, despite scant evidence that ineligible children had been signed up. That policy was reversed as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
...a large body of social science suggests that the mere requirement of documenting work hours is likely to cause many eligible people to lose coverage, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“When Obamacare told them they had to obey the law, they reluctantly signed up for Medicaid.”
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They didn’t HAVE to sign up for Medicaid if they signed up for health insurance individually-——and did NOT sign up using the Obamacare exchange. Using the exchange would force them onto Medicaid.
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Good points.
SSDI too.
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