Alabama’s plan to impose a work requirement on parents receiving Medicaid could cost as many as 8,700 people their health coverage in the first year alone, affecting mainly mothers whose children also would feel the impact, according to a new analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and Arise Citizens’ Policy Project.

The proposal would add red-tape and other barriers to Medicaid coverage for some of the most vulnerable families in America. Any parent working the 20 to 35 hours required under the state proposal would make too much money to qualify for Medicaid – but likely not enough to afford private insurance. These harsh new restrictions would disproportionately hurt families living in rural communities and small towns where jobs are scarce.

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Call-In Information

WHAT: A press call to present the new analysis on proposed Medicaid restrictions

WHO: Joan Alker, Executive Director of Georgetown University Center for Children and Families; Jim Carnes, Policy Director, Alabama Arise; Dr. Marsha Raulerson, Pediatrician in Brewton, Ala., and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics

WHEN: Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at 11 (EDT)  (10 a.m. CDT)

Participant dial-in number:
866-952-8559

Conference ID:
Alabama