https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powe...207955fca/
Quote:As we explained recently here at The Health 202, instituting work requirements in non-expansion states means the absolute poorest Americans, who are largely single mothers, would be caught in a catch-22 where working could earn them too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not working would also make them ineligible for the benefits.
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The state projects the population who will fall into the catch-22 category and be eligible to receive the additional 24 months of coverage is only 1,280 people, or, by Alker's calculations, 2 percent of the parents or caretakers who have Medicaid. Alker said the administration's contention has been that Medicaid should be "preserved for the truly needy."
"That’s exactly who is hit by these proposals," she told me. "If they were to approve one of these [non-expansion states] it would really lay bare the hypocrisy of what they’re saying."