The last few weeks we have reported on the latest moves by some states to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. The Kaiser Family Foundation has recently issued an issue brief entitled “How Might Medicaid Adults with Disabilities Be Affected By Work Requirements in Section 1115 Waiver Programs?”
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) also released a fact sheet this week entitled “How Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm People with Disabilities and Serious Illnesses.” As the graphic below shows, the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries are already working and most of the rest are unable to work due to a disability, acting as a caregiver for a family member, going to school or retired. The simple truth is that work requirements solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
