According to HHS, nine states are responsible for 60 percent of children’s coverage losses between March and September.
HHS wants states with the highest rates of children dropped from Medicaid to use certain federal rules that make it easier to get families back on coverage.
In letters sent Monday to the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra urged the states to take up more of options CMS has offered to ensure coverage. The options include allowing states to use enrollee information they have to auto-renew coverage.
HHS also issued new guidance for states Monday, including an option to give kids an additional 12 months to get on the rolls. That option is available through 2024, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure told reporters.
Becerra also asked the states to remove barriers to Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment for children no longer eligible for Medicaid, reduce call center times for families and expand their Medicaid programs if they haven’t already.
They do make cuts already, it just gives them even more of an excuse. That is why it is counterproductive, more fuel for the dumpster fire with zero possible upside.
They don’t need an excuse. They could just do it.
Why don’t they? I have a theory, what’s yours?
They are cutting those programs.
What is your theory for why they are not doing the thing they are already doing?
That’s literally what this thread is about lol
My point is that Biden could put legitimate pressure on them by threatening to cut off federal funding - not just to Medicaid, but to shit like highway funding. The response I’m getting is “if Biden does that then they’ll just cut more” which doesn’t make sense because they could already cut more. They don’t need an excuse, as evidenced by this fucking thread and your own fucking link.
Why haven’t they already cut everything? Can you answer that?
They want to get re-elected. If they don’t have an excuse but to cut everything, they can do it but still get re-elected. So your solution is to give them what they want and get them re-elected.