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Advocates and disability groups urge removal or revision of expansion ‘trigger’ and oppose work requirement
Summary
Advocates and disability groups pressed the House Medicaid Committee to revise or remove a budget provision that would automatically end Medicaid expansion if the federal match falls below 90% and to oppose work requirements for the expansion population.
Advocates, disability-rights representatives and policy researchers urged the House Medicaid Committee to reconsider two parts of the governor's proposed budget that affect the Medicaid expansion population (group 8): (1) a trigger provision that would suspend expansion if the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for expansion falls below the current 90% match, and (2) a waiver request to add community-engagement/work requirements for group 8.
Charlotte Rudolph of the Universal Healthcare Action Network of Ohio (written testimony), Catherine Poe of Policy Matters Ohio and Sarah Hudacek of…
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