The Reality of Work Requirements for Medicaid

We’ve spent the last few weeks talking work requirements for safety net programs, and it’s all been leading up to this: work requirements for Medicaid. By looking at the EITC and TANF, we learned some things. Can these lessons inform decisions about whether and how to implement work requirements for Medicaid? If so, how? That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage. Resources used in the making of this video: Medicaid and Work Requirements: New Guidance, State Waiver Details and Key Issues: https://goo.gl/HvHieG Updated: Who Could Be Affected by Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Requirements, and What Do We Know about Them?: https://goo.gl/ENZNXv Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirements: What Are the Coverage Risks for Working Enrollees?: https://goo.gl/vSZ8wn Kentucky Medically Frail Provider Attestation: https://goo.gl/GM4Gme The Value of Introducing Work Requirements to Medicaid: https://goo.gl/c56oLs Medicaid Enrollees and Work Requirements: Lessons From the TANF Experience: https://goo.gl/J8NsCP Commentary: As Predicted, Eligible Arkansas Medicaid Beneficiaries Struggling to Meet Rigid Work Requirements: https://goo.gl/y416CD A First Glance At Medicaid Work Requirements In Arkansas: More Than One-Quarter Did Not Meet Requirement: https://goo.gl/qBA543 One Big Problem With Medicaid Work Requirement: People Are Unaware It Exists: https://goo.gl/yzr3Du More than 4,300 Arkansas residents lose Medicaid under work requirements: https://goo.gl/Xoxzrq What Research Tells Us about Work Requirements: https://goo.gl/yDtzZ2 Opportunities to Promote Work and Community Engagement Among Medicaid Beneficiaries: https://goo.gl/ECw3TZ Work Requirements in Social Safety Net Programs: https://goo.gl/dQS2L4 *** Aaron has a book out now! It’s called The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully. You can order a copy now!!! Amazon - http://amzn.to/2hGvhKw Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-... Indiebound - http://www.indiebound.org/book/978054... iBooks - http://itunes.apple.com/us/book?isbn=... Google - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISB... Kobo - http://www.kobobooks.com/search/searc... Any local bookstore you might frequent. You can ask for the book by name or ISBN 978-0544952560 John Green -- Executive Producer Stan Muller -- Director, Producer Aaron Carroll -- Writer Mark Olsen – Graphics Meredith Danko – Social Media   / aaronecarroll     / crashcoursestan     / johngreen     / olsenvideo   And the housekeeping: 1) You can support Healthcare Triage on Patreon: http://vid.io/xqXr Every little bit helps make the show better! 2) Check out our Facebook page: http://goo.gl/LnOq5z 3) We still have merchandise available at http://www.hctmerch.com