Volume 391, Number 10126
24 March 2018
WORLD REPORT Medicaid work requirements would make the health insurance programme a pathway out of poverty, say top US health officials. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, reports.
Beneficiaries can lose their health care if they fail to pay a premium, submit documentation that they qualify for an exemption, or to report a change in eligibility. “All roads lead to people being terminated from the programme or locked out of coverage,” said Leonardo Cuello, an attorney and director of health policy at the National Health Law Program in Washington, DC.
“This is not about punishing anyone”, said Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. “It’s about giving people an opportunity to work and give them the training they need and help them move out of poverty and up the economic ladder.” [Full article here.]