I don’t really understand this - the millions who will no longer have insurance will still get sick. In fact, without access to well care, they will get sicker. And show up at the ER. And get care. And the hospitals won’t get paid.
Work requirements, yes. As well as a reduction in federal funding to states, and increases in required eligibility checks (more paper work to keep your Medicaid).
I have not looked into this deeply, but to my knowledge there is no “Kick peopleoff medicaid” providion in Congress right now.
What DID happen is that in the big spending bill that passed the House this AM there is a hange in funding for able-bodied working-aged adults who refuse to work but receive Medicaid anyway.
Under current law, congress gives buckets of meny to states to fund medicaid programs.
If this bill passes the senate, congress will change the formaul and will add a work requirement for able-bodied working-aged adults.
If a state currently gives free medicaid to able-bodied working-aged adults the state wil face a choice
---- receive less money, fund that part entirely themselves (their own state healht insurance for their own state residents) or
---- adopt a requirement that those receipients eventually have to get a job.
Hardworking families in Ohio and Mississippi are tired of paying money to California and NY based on California and NY’s insistence on giving medicaid to their own lazy people who refuse to work.