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.
This is why I hate Biden. All he does is beg his enemies to be merciful. He won’t play for keeps.
I don’t hate Biden for this. His hands are completely tied because of federalism and the separation of powers.
What I hate is that his hands are tied because of those things and it’s hurting kids. It’s a shitty system of government that seems designed to prevent progress. Which I guess I should expect from something written by slavers.
His hands aren’t tied, he just refuses to use any of the tools available to him.
For example, he could withhold federal funding from states that refuse to comply.
Can he do that? I thought Congress controlled the purse.
Trump had no problem withholding federal funds from things he didn’t like.
Sure, he might lose the fight if he tries, but there’s a gulf between “try and fail” vs “beg”
Why not ask him to personally murder a Republican governor? After all, your guy Trump would do it…
… there’s a huge gulf between “withhold federal funds” and “murder political opponents” 🙄
Based on historical events, that will just allow them to make further cuts to programs that support the poor and minorities because “we can’t afford these programs”. Cutting funding as a threat to conservatives who don’t want to spend government money on the less fortunate is counterproductive.
They could make further cuts right now, no need to wait for Biden to give them justification. Why do you think they don’t
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?
Letting poor people die of lack of medical care is not the merciful strategy you think it is.
Biden is letting poor people die due to Republican policies, because he doesn’t want to play for keeps.
