No. of Recommendations: 14
Dope1:
Are they able-bodied and thus able to work?Most are already working.
Nearly two-thirds of adults ages 19-64 covered by Medicaid were working and nearly three in ten were not working because of caregiving responsibilities, illness or disability, or due to school attendance, reasons that counted as qualifying exemptions from the work requirements under previous policies.
Based on the data, only a small share of Medicaid adults were not meeting work requirements or would not have qualified for an exemption qualifying exemptions: however, many more Medicaid enrollees who would remain eligible would be at risk of losing coverage because of the administrative burden and red tape related to reporting requirements.
Like Luke Seaborn, a 54-year-old from rural Jefferson, Georgia. Luke became the face of Georgia's Pathways to Coverage, the state's insurance program for impoverished Georgians, calling it an innovative way to decrease the state’s high rate of uninsured adults while reining in government spending, holding the program up as an example to other Republican-led states eager to institute Medicaid work requirements.
Until... his benefits were canceled.
Seaborn said he had logged his work hours into the online system once a month as required. But his benefits were canceled after he failed to complete a new form that he said the state had added without adequate warning. Seaborn said the form asked for the same information he had been submitting every month, just in a different format. Being the face of Georgia's Pathways to Coverage, Seaborn had a contact in an insurance executive involved in a testimonial video he starred in for the state. She said she was having lunch with the governor and presto-chango, Seaborn's benefits were restore.
And then they were cancelled again.
Even so, technical glitches and more red tape caused him to lose his coverage once more, he said. He stopped receiving texts from the Pathways program in February. When he logged in to the digital platform in early March to make sure everything was in order, a notice informed him that his benefits would be terminated on April 1. The reason: he had missed filing an annual income statement. He said the surprise requirement had popped up on the digital platform even though his coverage was not up for renewal.
“My head exploded,” he said. “I didn’t get a text or an email. I did what I was supposed to, but that wasn’t good enough.”So the face of Georgia's Pathways to Coverage lost his benefits twice and is now complaining about leopard's eating his face but, you know, it's a simple process to maintain coverage.
Dude, you're in a cult.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicai...https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/understan... 