New Hampshire Union Leader

By: Tricia Brooks

New Hampshire is proposing to add burdensome paperwork requirements for U.S. citizens to prove eligibility for Medicaid. That’s one of the requests it is making in its Medicaid waiver proposal.

This is perplexing because the state and federal governments have spent millions of dollars establishing systems that electronically verify citizenship and qualified immigration status efficiently and accurately through the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. If, and only if, eligibility cannot be electronically verified, are applicants required to provide paperwork to prove their status.

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Re-posted Tricia Brooks’ blog on New Hampshire’s proposed paperwork requirement as an op-ed. Read more here.