Medicaid work requirements:
*don't increase labor force participation
*reduce health insurance access for the poor
The Trump administration and states like South Carolina are using them *because* they limit access to healthcare 1/ ccf.georgetown.edu/2019/12/12/tru…
*don't increase labor force participation
*reduce health insurance access for the poor
The Trump administration and states like South Carolina are using them *because* they limit access to healthcare 1/ ccf.georgetown.edu/2019/12/12/tru…
South Carolina is a primary example of the targeting of administrative burdens, imposing work requirements on low-income parents. Even exempted populations - such as the people with disabilities - have to demonstrate they are exempt. Many won't and will lose coverage. 2/ 
Courts have repeatedly blocked these work requirements,
so why are red states and the Trump administration doubling down on them?
Because the goal of the requirements is to limit access to health insurance, not to facilitate it. 3/
so why are red states and the Trump administration doubling down on them?
Because the goal of the requirements is to limit access to health insurance, not to facilitate it. 3/
Most reasonable people would look at the evidence from Arkansas' disastrous work requirements and call a halt to such experiments.
Unless the whole point for Seema Verma and red state politicians is to limit health insurance access. Which it is. 4/
Unless the whole point for Seema Verma and red state politicians is to limit health insurance access. Which it is. 4/
Some states are barely pretending that work requirements are anything other than a gotcha game. No real help to the who are unemployed to get training, demand 48 job applications, make reporting online only for people with low technological literacy. 5/
Its "policymaking by other means" because politicians can hide their (unpopular) goal to cut services behind administrative burdens. They pay no political price b/c people don't pay attention to the details of government, or their effects. So keep raising hell about this! 6/
