Posted on 08/05/2021 11:03:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Federal health officials will likely reject Montana’s request to include work requirements for beneficiaries of its Medicaid expansion program, which insures 100,000 low-income Montana adults, state officials said.
Three years after the Trump administration encouraged states to require proof that adult enrollees are working a certain number of hours or looking for work as a condition of receiving Medicaid expansion benefits, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reversed course under Democratic President Joe Biden.
“CMS has communicated to (the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services) that a five-year extension of the Medicaid expansion waiver will not include work/community engagement requirements,” health officials wrote in a Medicaid waiver amendment application out for public review.
It’s unclear what that means for the future of the Montana program.
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Free money, no work. Sounds like what the democrats have been trying to implement!
We’re a two-class society. Those who work, and those who live off those who work. Expect it to get worse.
It’s by design. The Cloward–Piven strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
They want to collapse the system so they can usher in communism. It’s all going to collapse all right, but not in the way they expect.
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