By: Madeline Morcelle and Rolonda Donelson
Executive Summary
Medicaid helps people live healthier and more economically secure lives. It increases the diagnosis and early treatment of chronic conditions, enhances educational achievement and future earnings for covered children, reduces health care inequities, and provides comprehensive, high-quality, and cost-effective care. Medicaid coverage is tailored to the unique needs of individuals and families with low-incomes, but still costs less per beneficiary than private insurance. Medicaid’s core beneficiary protections make the program work for enrolled populations, including children, parents, pregnant people, low-income workers, older adults, and people with disabilities. Despite Medicaid’s proven success and efficient use of funds, detractors repeatedly seek to cut or cap funding for the program. These proposals seriously jeopardize the health and financial security of the more than 80 million people who benefit from Medicaid and CHIP.
This fact sheet explains how Medicaid work requirements would hurt the U.S. workforce.
This fact sheet is part of our Protect Medicaid Funding series. A companion blog to this series can also be found here.
