BREAKING: Federal Court Strikes Down Kentucky's Medicaid Work Requirement

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Alice Ollstein | June 29, 2018 3:38 pm

The Trump administration’s approval of Kentucky’s strict Medicaid work requirement, set to go into effect July 1, was vacated on Friday by a federal judge in Washington D.C. and sent back to the Department of Health and Human Services for reconsideration.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sided with the dozen-plus low-income Kentuckians who challenged the new rules, and said that the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner by approving them.

“The Secretary never adequately considered whether Kentucky HEALTH would in
fact help the state furnish medical assistance to its citizens, a central objective of Medicaid,” Boasberg wrote.

Kentucky was the first state in the nation, and in the nation’s history, to win permission from the federal government to implement Medicaid work requirements. Three other states have since followed: Indiana, Arkansas and New Hampshire. Nearly a dozen are currently awaiting approval from the Trump administration.


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[exboyfil]

1. I am sure they will put the appeal on a rocket to the Supreme Court

[NYC Liberal]

4. Not too fast though. Gotta get Trump's crony on the court first.

[33taw]

9. He has that now.

[workinclasszero]

11. Yeah Trump will pack his court with another

MAGA cult asshole and....

[Cha]

16. MAGAT

[lordsummerisle]

12. Are they not out of session until October? n/t

[iluvtennis]

2. Just evil to increase health care cause for low income folks....

And to think, these folks voted for trump. You reap, what you sow.

Kentucky’s waiver, had it been allowed to go into effect, would have denied coverage to non-disabled state residents who could not prove they were working at least 80 hours per month. It would also have charged low-income Medicaid recipients health care premiums, eliminated full coverage of dental care, vision services, and over-the-counter medications for many adults, ended retroactive Medicaid coverage, and implemented a six-month lockout period for people who failed to re-enroll in time or report a change in income.

[treestar]

6. I wonder did they have any plan

for what might happen in a recession. Right wingers are idiots who assume there is always a job open. Until they lose their job. Then it's the Mexican immigrants' fault.

[LenaBaby61]

13. Right wingers are idiots who assume there is always a job open.

Even though there may be jobs open, there might not even be a minimum wage attached to that job. Even in red mooching states, there's some type of minimum wage set. BUT, if this new SC gets a shot at it, an employer who manages to get a up to the SC, that $7.25 minimum wage that a tRumpanzee might think he/she can get their tRump-loving hands on, may go down to say $5, 4, 3 hell $2.00 per hour. And, that A 40 hour work week may dry up and they may not receive enough hours of work to make a living wage. THEN where they be? Where will be ALL be? If a home is lost, or the ability to pay for an apartment, up under a bridge, homeless shelter, a park they go. Maybe in their car, but that'll be cramped if there is a whole family involved. That's if tRump says it's "okay" for there to BE homeless people living in their cars, shelters, parks or bridges where homeless people/families can live. He might just tell his deplorable base that love him and voted for him him to go live under a bridge someplace That's if Dear Leader allows people/families who are homeless with no place to go to live in their cars, in a park, under a bridge etc.

[pazzyanne]

14. Haven't you heard?

tRump's tax cuts are bringing wealth to the US - bigly - said one of the WH economic advisors earlier today. Talk about a bunch of morons.

[hibbing]

3. Dead Kennedys- Kill the Poor

[Matthew28]

5. Glad to see a

judge that is human do the right thing.

Sadly, that is going to become rarer as trump packs the courts with monsters.

[standingtall]

7. best news of the week still a long way from over

but at the very least this will get stalled in the courts for awhile now.

[lsewpershad]

8. Trump and his canal don't care

DO YOU!

[33taw]

10. The SC will uphold any law enacted by republicans.

[bitterross]

15. It won't matter. 45's SCOTUS will uphold the rules on appeal.

We all know that is where it is going and it will set the precedent for all the other states that want to do this.

[Cha]

17. Well Good on Judge James Boasberg.. a

humanitarian!

[GulfCoast66]

18. No. Just following the law.

[Cha]

19. Good! That works!

[malthaussen]

20. Just jerking people around. Ky sucks.

Yeah, they'll appeal. It's gonna take months for it to be all sorted out.

Meanwhile. the work requirement that was supposed to go in effect 1 October (according to official notice; the 1 July date is in error) is now, temporarily, stayed.

What does go in effect 1 July is the new medical insurance policy, which requires some payment from everybody. I wonder how many folks have already paid in good faith while their status is in limbo?

-- Mal