ThinkProgress
By: Amanda Michelle Gomez
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released new criteria Tuesday outlining how it will judge state applications that look to innovate the 1965 insurance program. Notably omitted from the newly unveiled plan: “expanding eligibility.” Veering away from the Obama administration’s goal to extend coverage, the Trump administration is seemingly prioritizing overall efficiency and personal responsibility among enrollees instead.
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“New CMS Medicaid waiver criteria is thinly veiled rhetoric to pave the way for approvals of state policies that will cause loss of coverage,” Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, tweeted on Tuesday.