'Work or die': Kevin McCarthy sneaks Matt Gaetz's Medicaid plan into debt ceiling bill
1 year, 8 months ago

'Work or die': Kevin McCarthy sneaks Matt Gaetz's Medicaid plan into debt ceiling bill

Raw Story  

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to have granted a request from Rep. Matt Gaetz to include work requirements for Medicaid in a bill that would raise the nation's debt limit. NBC News reported that McCarthy might not have enough Republican votes to pass the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, a 320-page bill that would raise the debt ceiling at the expense of government programs. But McCarthy will likely have the support of Gaetz after much of the Florida lawmaker's Medicaid work requirements plan was included in the debt ceiling bill. The bill filed by McCarthy would force non-disabled adults receiving Medicaid to work 80 hours a month if they were not parents or primary caregivers.

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Column: GOP targets Medicaid with the return of a terrible idea
1 month ago

Column: GOP targets Medicaid with the return of a terrible idea

LA Times  

Asa Hutchinson announces his state’s plan to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees in 2018, as then-President Trump’s Medicaid boss, Seema Verma, looks on. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the legal waivers that allowed individual states to experiment with work requirements didn’t …

Debt deal imposes new work requirements for food aid and that frustrates many Democrats
1 year, 6 months ago

Debt deal imposes new work requirements for food aid and that frustrates many Democrats

The Independent  

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Here’s what’s in, what’s out of the debt limit bill to avert US default
1 year, 6 months ago

Here’s what’s in, what’s out of the debt limit bill to avert US default

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have been working the phones in an intense push to sell Congress on the 99-page bill that would suspend the nation’s debt limit through 2025 to avoid a federal default while limiting government spending. With the details of the deal now released, here’s what’s in and out: TWO-YEAR DEBT LIMIT …

US debt ceiling deal: What’s in, what’s out of the bill
1 year, 6 months ago

US debt ceiling deal: What’s in, what’s out of the bill

Al Jazeera  

The Democratic president and Republican speaker are trying to win over lawmakers to the plan in time to avert a default. The debt-ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would suspend the United States’ debt limit through 2025 to avoid a federal default while limiting government spending, but its details are unlikely to be popular with …

Biden, GOP reach tentative deal to raise debt ceiling, avoid calamitous US default
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden, GOP reach tentative deal to raise debt ceiling, avoid calamitous US default

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the nation’s legal debt ceiling late Saturday as they raced to strike a deal to limit federal spending and avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default. Biden called the agreement “good news for the American people, because it prevents what could have been a …

'Things are looking good': President Biden hopeful on debt ceiling after Treasury warns of June 5 default
1 year, 6 months ago

'Things are looking good': President Biden hopeful on debt ceiling after Treasury warns of June 5 default

Firstpost  

Negotiators are discussing a deal that would lift the limit for two years, but remain at odds over whether to stiffen work requirements for some anti-poverty programs Democratic President Joe Biden and a Republican negotiator said on Friday they were working on a deal to raise the US government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling after the Treasury Department warned that a …

New work requirements for federal aid? GOP pushes proposals in debt talks
1 year, 7 months ago

New work requirements for federal aid? GOP pushes proposals in debt talks

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Work requirements for federal aid programs have emerged as a sticking point in ongoing negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, and President Joe Biden has signaled openness to a possible compromise even as many in his party have balked. Legislation passed by the House in April would impose new or expanded work requirements for three federal programs …

McCarthy demands work requirements on ‘all the programs’ including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP
1 year, 7 months ago

McCarthy demands work requirements on ‘all the programs’ including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP

Raw Story  

Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is under fire after announcing Tuesday he is demanding work requirements for "all" social safety net programs as part of his debt ceiling "negotiations" with President Joe Biden. "What work requirements actually do is help people get a job," he told reporters. Work requirements do nothing to "help" people get jobs, they simply …

What GOP’s plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean
1 year, 7 months ago

What GOP’s plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — More than a half million of the poorest Americans could be left without health insurance under legislation passed by House Republicans that would require people to work in exchange for health care coverage through Medicaid. The work requirements say able-bodied adults ages 19 to 55 who don’t have children or other dependents would be required to work, train …

"Pro-starvation agenda": Kevin McCarthy called out as GOP plots food aid cuts
1 year, 8 months ago

"Pro-starvation agenda": Kevin McCarthy called out as GOP plots food aid cuts

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. So do over 65,000 men, women, and children in the community I serve," Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said in a statement Sunday after Politico reported that McCarthy's, R-Calif., proposal includes an expansion of work requirements for certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients and a call to limit states' ability to waive work mandates—a …

Column: Biden drives another nail into the coffin of Medicaid work requirements
3 years, 9 months ago

Column: Biden drives another nail into the coffin of Medicaid work requirements

LA Times  

Asa Hutchinson is the only governor to implement Medicaid work rules — though a dozen others have tried. Last month, the Biden administration turned thumbs down on the work requirements several red states tried to impose on Medicaid during the Trump years — but it left the door ajar by a crack if states could show that the rules made …

Column: Goodbye to those stupid, useless and biased Medicaid work requirements
3 years, 10 months ago

Column: Goodbye to those stupid, useless and biased Medicaid work requirements

LA Times  

Asa Hutchinson announces approval of work requirements for Medicaid in 2018, joined by President Trump’s Medicaid director, Seema Verma. Healthcare experts warned from the inception that work requirements would throw thousands of people off Medicaid, wouldn’t increase employment, would be expensive to administer, would probably be ruled illegal and were unnecessary. The CMS told Arkansas and New Hampshire, which also …

High court will hear appeal over Medicaid work requirements
4 years ago

High court will hear appeal over Medicaid work requirements

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In the midst of a pandemic, the Supreme Court said Friday it will take up the Trump administration’s stalled plan to allow states to require low-income people to work to receive health care under Medicaid. The timing of the court’s decision to take up the issue was curious because by the time the case is argued in late …

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