Monday, September 08, 2025

Institutionalizing work requirements costs

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Republicans have built costly bureaucracy to audit Medicaid work requirements. Adding another layer of qualifications confuses the process. In other words, the compliance of work requirement reporting confuses the process and adds to the cost of the program. People are not being removed for waste, fraud, and abuse; they are falling off the program because of the complexity of reporting for eligibility and policing. 

Medicaid, post Obamacare and complicated by Republican demands to “remove the lazy people,” has increased the bureaucracy cost while uninsuring those citizens UNABLE to navigate the maze of reporting. People are dying because of Republican required bureaucracy.