Provision in Medicaid work bill could end Healthy Michigan program
The poison pill would end the Medicaid expansion that was approved by the Legislature in 2013, which covers 680,000 Michiganders with health care, if the federal government fails to approve a waiver within 12 months.
If the state's Medicaid expansion plan deviates from previous practices, it has to apply for a waiver from the federal government to implement those changes. In
If the Trump administration, which has wanted to repeal Obamacare since taking office in 2017, wants to end the Medicaid expansion in
It was that provision that had
"The goal is to kick people off health care. In the bill, it says if they don't get the waiver, Healthy Michigan ends," said Senate Minority Leader
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The state "would have to give notice to enrollees and the program stops in four months," he said.
The movement toward requiring work for Medicaid coverage is growing across the nation with three states already requiring work for benefits and the administration of President
The bill, which received final passage Thursday in the
That provision was stripped out of the bill, in part, because it would cost the state
People who are exempt from the work requirements include pregnant women; people receiving disability benefits; full-time students; the medically frail; caretakers of a family member under age 6 or a dependent with a disability; a recipient who met a good cause temporary exemption; a recipient with a medical condition that resulted in a work limitation; a recipient who had been incarcerated within the last six months; a recipient of unemployment benefits, or a recipient under 21 who had previously been in foster care.
Shirkey estimated that about 350,000 of the 680,000 Healthy Michigan program recipients would be required to work under the bill.
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