[U] Just To Complete The Record: States’ Medicaid "Work Requirements" -- Not Likely To Be Meaningful.

I may (in late night high-jinks!) or may not spend time on a graphic here, since I view it as unlikely to be any materially meaningful long term change. [Moreover, to the extent that any red state tries to use it as a sharper spear, to purge its rolls of sick and disabled, there will be litigation -- and that litigation will meet with success -- think of federal Americans With Disabilities Act type claims. there.]

To keep a complete record, though -- in theory, the Trump administration has today announced not a binding rule, but just a view, essentially -- that states may (within limits) impose a "looking for work" requirement -- on otherwise able-bodied potential Medicaid recipients.

Yawn. Given that the vast majority of people who are NOT already disabled and are on Medicaid ARE ALREADY working, this is a "solution" in search of a problem. Most workers on Medicaid are on the program precisely because their employer does not provide health insurance coverage for them.

But it is a red-state anti-entitlement talking point -- so expect to hear more of it. I am unlikely to say much more about it here, though. Now you know.

Warm and cloudy this morning -- but a hard freeze again soon approaches, here. . . be excellent to one another.

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