( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “restrictive and expensive.” Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday. [CutID: <Cuts> GEORGIA-MEDICAID-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 25s Title: GEORGIA-MEDICAID-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: restrictive and expensive] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The program is likely to be closely watched as Republicans in Congress push to let […]
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Georgia launches Medicaid expansion in closely watched test of work requirements
( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “restrictive and expensive.”
Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The program is likely to be closely watched as Republicans in Congress push to let states require some current Medicaid enrollees to work.
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VERBATIM: Go to work or school and the state will cover you. Georgia’s plan would provide coverage for able-bodied adults who meet activity requirements of 80 hours per month and whose incomes are 100% or less of the federal poverty level. But advocates decry the plan, which will insure far fewer people than a full expansion of the state-federal Medicaid program. They say it’s needlessly restrictive and expensive.