Indiana Public Media
By: Jake Harper and Samantha Horton
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced it will support state policies that require people to work for their Medicaid coverage. Ten states —including Indiana and Kentucky — have submitted proposals to add a so-called work requirement to their Medicaid plans.
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Additionally, there’s not consensus the programs are effective at getting people into jobs, said Joan Alker of Georgetown University during a conversation in Lexington, Kentucky in November. “Everybody wants to increase employment, that’s a great goal, but this is not the right way to go about that,” said Alker. “We know from studies that this kind of requirement doesn’t work; it doesn’t help people get jobs. We want people to be healthy so they can work, and if we take away their health coverage they’re going to get sicker and not going to be able to work.”
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