From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/):
On June 29, a federal District Court dealt a blow to the Trump Administration and states trying to take away Medicaid from people who can’t meet new work requirements. Judge James E. Boasberg ruled that the administration’s approval of Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver request was “arbitrary and capricious,” because it didn’t consider the impact on affordable health coverage in spite of numerous comments. The judge vacated the waiver’s approval, sending it back to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for further review.
In an NPR story, Elizabeth Lower-Basch said “the court made the right decision.” She continued by saying “It found that HHS did not even consider the basic question of whether the waiver would harm the core Medicaid goal of providing health coverage, and it prohibits Kentucky from implementing it until HHS makes such an assessment.”
Read the full post at https://www.clasp.org/blog/medicaid-ruling-protects-health-care-kentuckians-all-americans. View the NPR story at https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/29/624807533/federal-judge-blocks-medicaid-work-requirements-in-kentucky.
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