Health Care Leaders in House and Senate Tell CMS Administrator Verma to Reject Medicaid Waivers that Jeopardize American’s Health Care
"Medicaid 1115 waiver demonstrations that adopt restrictive conditions on eligibility like those contained in the Kentucky HEALTH demonstration threaten to impede access to critical care for millions of Americans," the members wrote. "Such actions imposing burdensome requirements to access essential coverage and care including onerous premiums and cost-sharing, arduous reporting requirements, and arbitrary work requirements are motivated purely on the basis of ideology and mistaken assumptions about what Medicaid is and who it covers."
The letter, sent to
CMS has begun to approve a number of unprecedented Medicaid waiver proposals in recent months. These waivers allow states to impose significant burdens on beneficiaries like locking them out of the program for months at a time and burying them in paperwork month after month to prove they are working - all while these families are working hard day in and day out just to get by.
The full letter can be found here https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/082218%20RW%20Pallone%20to%20HHS%20KY%20Waiver.pdf.
Read this original document at: https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-pallone-warn-trump-administration-against-moving-forward-on-harmful-medicaid-waivers
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