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Medicaid/SNAP
Nationwide Work Requirements
- all able-bodied adults aged 19-64 on Medicaid will be required to work or participate in approved activities for at least 80 hours per month to maintain coverage.
- Exemptions exist for people with disabilities, students, caregivers, pregnant women, and parents of children under 14.
- These requirements go into effect on January 1, 2027.
- States must routinely update and share enrollee addresses and Social Security numbers with a new national database to prevent duplicate enrollment.
- Quarterly checks against the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File will be required to promptly remove deceased enrollees.
- Federal Medicaid funds will not cover abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or life-threatening complications.
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will create a single, nationwide system to detect and prevent dual enrollment in multiple states.
- Pregnant women remain exempt from work requirements.
- Additional note: democrats were all for work requirements until republicans instituted them.
There is no provision in this bill that defunds rural hospitals.
Some are concerned that tightening Medicaid will result in reduced revenue for rural hospitals, but
this bill focuses specifically on things like
- ensuring that deceased people are scrubbed from Medicaid,
- re-evaluating recipients eligibility yearly.
- preventing Medicaid from being used to pay for child transition surgery.
- prevents federal dollars from being spent on abortion
- gives the states more control over how Medicaid is run in their states, taking that power from the federal government.
