It’s on.
National Health Law Program (NHeLP) is challenging the Trump Administration over their new Medicaid work requirements project they approved in Kentucky.
Representing 15 Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), the Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KEJC), and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sued the Trump administration today in federal court for its approval of a state Medicaid waiver project that will cause nearly 100,000 hard-working Kentuckians to lose health care coverage. "Through imposition of premiums and cost sharing, 'lockouts,' benefits cuts, and a work requirement, the waiver will radically reshape Medicaid in a manner that, by the State's own admission, will result in substantial reductions in coverage."
If you remember, KY Governor Matt Bevin has already signed an executive order that states if any part of Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver is struck down in the courts, he will throw nearly 500,000 Kentuckians off their health care as punishment that anyone dare challenge him.
Gov. Matt Bevin has issued an executive order that would strip Medicaid coverage from nearly half a million Kentuckians should his proposed overhaul of the federal-state health plan be struck down in court.
No one has filed a legal challenge to Bevin's changes to Kentucky's Medicaid program that federal authorities approved Friday.
But several advocacy groups have said some of the changes — such as requiring some "able-bodied" adults to work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week — likely will be challenged in court because they violate federal law that establishes Medicaid purely as a health program and does not authorize work requirements.
"Is the Governor of Kentucky saying that if he is caught doing something illegal, he will take health care away from hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians who have done nothing wrong?" asked Leonardo Cuello, director of health policy for the National Health Law Program.
Cuello's Washington-based health advocacy group is considering a legal challenge to Bevin's plan.
Let’s hope they win this in court.
We shall see what the evil Matt Bevin does to Kentuckians then.