Michel Martin speaks to Diane Rowland from The Kaiser Family Foundation about a new order from President Trump to establish work requirements for recipients of Medicaid and other federal benefits.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Another potentially significant move by the president last week happened without any fanfare, an executive order he signed quietly to create work requirements for people receiving federal benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid. Now several states, including Kentucky, already require people who Medicaid to prove that they work. But so far, the courts have blocked those efforts. We wanted to hear more about this, so we called Diane Rowland of the Kaiser Family Foundation. She's done extensive research into Medicaid and other health insurance programs.
DIANE ROWLAND: The executive order really says to each of the departments, including the Department of Health and Human Services, to go to any program that provides assistance to individuals who are low income and really enforce a work requirement in order for them to retain their benefits in that program. And it's the first time that such a order would go to programs like Medicaid.
[For more on this story from All Things Considered, go to https://www.npr.org/2018/04/15...-assistance-programs]
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