Tribal Representatives Caution State Health Officials Against Plan for Medicaid Work Requirements

Counterpoint: Medicaid work requirements increase bureaucracy, not accountability

Guest Commentary: The vast majority of budgetary savings from work requirements are likely to be realized by booting eligible beneficiaries from the program, not by getting them to work or revoking coverage from “lazy adults” who refuse to pursue it.

Tribal representatives caution state health officials against plan for Medicaid work requirements

Tribal health leaders during a Tuesday public consultation questioned and criticized Montanas move toward Medicaid work requirements and premiums for the low-income health coverage plan a process the state health department is kickstarting months ahead of the schedule laid out in a Republican-backed domestic policy bill signed by President Donald Trump on July 4.Although Native Americans are exempted from many of the new state and federal requir…

‘More questions than answers’: Tribal representatives caution state health officials against plan for Medicaid work requirements

Tribal health leaders during a Tuesday public consultation questioned and criticized Montana’s move toward Medicaid work requirements and premiums for the low-income health coverage plan — a process the state health department is kickstarting months ahead of the schedule laid out in a Republican-backed domestic policy bill signed by President Donald Trump on July 4. Although Native Americans are exempted from many of the new state and federal re…