Medicaid chief Seema Verma gets the program exactly wrongAdvertisementAs my colleague Noam Levey reports, Medicaid and the related Children’s Health Insurance Program cover more than 70 million low-income Americans. Whether many states will take up the administration’s offer to remake their Medicaid programs is unclear, in part because the legality of some of the new provisions is uncertain. The administration contends that changing Medicaid rules is a critical need because the program is so costly, but that’s a threadbare rationale. AdvertisementThe new Medicaid rules would allow states to impose work requirements or premiums on Medicaid recipients, even though work rules have been overturned in the federal courts. AdvertisementUnder current law, the federal government pays a set percentage of all state Medicaid spending.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 30, 2020 20:15 UTC