The real burden is a Medicaid program that grows larger, more expensive, and less focused every year. Work requirements will save taxpayers money, encourage upward mobility, and help ensure that Medicaid’s resources are directed toward the vulnerable Americans who depend on it most.
States are grumbling about the cost of implementing new work requirements for working-age Medicaid beneficiaries.
“[I]t’s taking a significant amount of financial resources away from a system that people depend on,” Marvin B. Figueroa, the Virginia secretary of Health and Human Services, recently said.
But that argument gets the issue backward. The cost of administering work requirements will be dwarfed by the savings they generate. More importantly, those requirements will help preserve Medicaid for the poor and vulnerable Americans it was created to serve.
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States are grumbling about Medicaid work requirements. Taxpayers shouldn’t.
Sally C. Pipes
The real burden is a Medicaid program that grows larger, more expensive, and less focused every year. Work requirements will save taxpayers money, encourage upward mobility, and help ensure that Medicaid’s resources are directed toward the vulnerable Americans who depend on it most.
States are grumbling about the cost of implementing new work requirements for working-age Medicaid beneficiaries.
“[I]t’s taking a significant amount of financial resources away from a system that people depend on,” Marvin B. Figueroa, the Virginia secretary of Health and Human Services, recently said.
But that argument gets the issue backward. The cost of administering work requirements will be dwarfed by the savings they generate. More importantly, those requirements will help preserve Medicaid for the poor and vulnerable Americans it was created to serve.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.