More scroogification of the safety net.
Heartless.Bastard.
Like all GOP’ers.
“Are there no workhouses?!” 
Drug testing companies are right up there with private prison operators in the GOP’s heart.
So when next year rolls around that 60% that are working and on the Medicaid rolls will be told that they must meet X amount of hours worked, and that could mean at your current job or hey go out and get a 2nd job.
“I’m not sure how denying coverage for people based on their inability to find work really meets the objective of providing health insurance to low-income individuals,” said Jessica Schubel, a senior advisor for CMS during the Obama administration.
Much too logical and compassionate there, Jessica. Don’t you know that imposing these requirements shows “dignity and respect of high expectations” and the delivery of “programs that instill hope and say to each beneficiary that we believe in their potential.” “Too chronically ill, too disabled to work? Too untrained to find a job? Too bad! Suffer some more without healthcare.”
“Improve access to high-quality, person-centered services that produce positive health outcomes for individuals”
Person centered services, not patient centered services? Trying to slip something by us there, aren’t you?
And if someone has a terminal condition, are you going to deny them Medi-caid because they will not have a “positive health outcome”?
Total BS, word salad and gobbleygook.
But then I expected no less.
One of the biggest changes Verma signaled Tuesday was a rule change allowing states to impose work requirements on their Medicaid recipients and kick people out of the program who cannot find gainful employment.
And the question is, how is “gainful employment” defined. If you’re already working a part-time job that refuses to give you more than 20 hours of work per week, what are you supposed to do? Technically speaking, you’ve done what HHS required: you got a job. But it doesn’t pay enough to live on.
Then what?
Get another job. And then another. Work 25 hours a day if you have to!
Only in “conservative” minds is the criteria of having more people have more healthcare coverage be considered a “hollow victory of numbers”.
Proof that such thinking truly puts people second, well below ideology.
One of the biggest changes Verma signaled Tuesday was a rule change allowing states to kick sick people out of the program. CMS believes that good health is essential to beneficiaries’ economic self-sufficiency, self-esteem, and well-being and our resources should not be wasted on the sick and injured.
Pres Full Diaper, Loser-in-Chief, jack boot on the necks of poor and middle-class Americans.
“hollow victory of numbers,”
Kinda like the Electoral College, amirite?
Why do republicans hate seniors, poor people and children?
What about enhancing the quality of medical care and exercise opportunities (ie, golf) for federal prisoners over 70 years of age?
Have an addiction problem? Perfect! We’re now going to take away any possibility of you receiving treatment!
What “opioid epidemic”?
Numbers are people, my friend.
And their current job won’t increase their hours because then the employer would have to provide health care options
In a statement distributed to reporters Tuesday morning, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma called the goal of covering more people a “hollow victory of numbers,” and instead called for changes that “reduce federal regulatory burdens, increase efficiency, and promote transparency and accountability.”
Agreed. It is such a burden on the government to ensure that people have adequate health coverage. Government would be so much more efficient if it simply ignored people’s needs, altogether. If the government doesn’t do anything, they can be completely transparent about everything, and that leads to impeccable accountability. Seema Verma is just incredible!