Personal responsibility added to Medicaid builds on previous welfare reform
“Thirty-four states have considered or have submitted Medicaid waiver requests to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking permission to add forms of work requirements to their state Medicaid programs. Predictably, the doomsday forecasters of 1995-1996 have returned in force claiming, ‘Work requirements are not about work, they are about taking health care away from low-income Americans,’ ‘Work Requirements Hurt Poor Families—and Won’t Work,’ and ‘Nancy Pelosi warns ‘hundreds of thousands of people will die.’’”