Monday, January 22, 2018

Get Off The Couch If You Want Medicaid

Last week, the Trump administration announced it will allow states to impose a "community engagement" requirement on healthy adults getting Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income people. So far, 10 states intend to do it, though not welfare-haven New York.
To get Medicaid, adults in these states will have to work or look for a job, study for a high school diploma, learn English as a second language, volunteer, get addiction treatment or take care of a family member. In short, they must do something. Democrats and the liberal media call the requirement "cruel" and "pathological." Baloney. There's no reason taxpayers should pick up the tab for able-bodied people who won't get off the couch.
Medicaid was created in 1965 as a safety net health program for pregnant women, children and the disabled. Then ObamaCare distorted it into permanent insurance, raising the allowable income level and opening it up to healthy adults who refuse to work. The Medicaid rolls now top 74 million, and are projected to reach 87 million within a decade.
As Medicaid dependence soars, the left brags that more people are "covered." Technically true, but misleading. Medicaid's ballooning enrollment is creating a national crisis. And not just because it's the fastest growing federal entitlement program and the biggest item in many state budgets.
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