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GOP warms to Obamacare — if Americans work for it
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 30, 2015 11:36am |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | Sarah Wheaton |
| News Date | Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In nearly a dozen Republican-dominated states, either the governor or conservative legislators are seeking to add work requirements to Obamacare Medicaid expansion, much like an earlier generation pushed for welfare to work.
The move presents a politically acceptable way for conservative states to accept the billions of federal dollars available under Obamacare, bringing health care coverage to millions of low-income people. But to the Obama administration, a work requirement is a non-starter, an unacceptable ideological shift in the 50-year-old Medicaid program and a break with the Affordable Care Act’s mission of expanding health care coverage to all Americans. The Health and Human Services Department has rejected all requests by states to tie Medicaid to work. |
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