The handwriting is on the wall. Medicaid spending must be cut.
The most likely way? Work requirements.
...To curb Medicaid spending, experts say, lawmakers may choose to add work requirements. Doing so would make it so people have to meet certain thresholds, such as 80 hours of work per month, to qualify for Medicaid coverage....
(Enter Tony Evers and thousands of paid demonstrators to object, scream and yell, and march around for the cameras.)
... In 2023, the Congressional Budget Office found implementing work requirements could save $109 billion over 10 years.
Yet that change could also put 36 million Medicaid enrollees at risk of losing their health-care coverage, estimates the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That represents about 44% of the approximately 80 million individuals who participate in the program. The estimates focus on adults ages 19 to 64, who would be most likely subject to a work requirement....
IOW, about 36 million people are getting taxpayer-paid FREE medical care for doing nothing.
That's not what the "press" will write, is it?
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