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By: Lisa Gillespie

After Gov. Matt Bevin proposed Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver – in which high-deductible health plans, premiums, and re-applications per year would be implemented – it became a hot topic and many commented on it. For instance, Adam Searing, from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, gave his opinion in that perhaps the waiver was not the best choice for Kentucky.

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Adam Searing, senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, said the results don’t bode well for the proposed Kentucky plan. People might either not know, or be too busy or confused to figure it out.

“You’re expecting a lot of people who are living at a place where they’re on the edge, they’re working multiple jobs, and the ideal is that everyone sits around and tracks their health plan spending account and assesses if they can go to the dentist. And for these families, that’s not how life works,” Searing said.

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