Healthcare DIVE October 28, 2019
LAS VEGAS — CMS Administrator Seema Verma outlined her response to the perennial question of what role government should take in healthcare during a keynote Sunday as the HLTH conference kicked off its second year.
The safety net for low-income and high-cost Americans should exist, but it must “avoid the pitfall of creating incentives that encourage government dependency and limit future opportunities,” Verma said.
CMS will “soon outline new opportunities for states to flip the Medicaid paradigm and free themselves from federal micromanagement,” she said.
CMS has approved controversial work requirement programs yoking health insurance to work or volunteering hours in nine states so far. In Arkansas, about 18,000 people lost coverage in a few months due to barriers in...
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