Trump’s new dystopian plot: Only the deserving poor get Medicaid

Five states want to impose time limits on Medicaid coverage, a classic example of pointless Trumpian cruelty

The Trump administration has reportedly turned its attention to another critical aspect of Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income people: Its guarantee of lifetime coverage. The same federal waiver requests that allowed the states of Kentucky and Indiana to end Medicaid coverage for able-bodied enrollees (for which 10 additional states have reportedly now applied) could also impose time limits on Medicaid coverage.

Five states — Arizona, Kansas, Utah, Maine and Wisconsin — are requesting federal waivers that will permit time limits on lifetime Medicaid enrollees, according to a McClatchy DC report. The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment, according to the report.
Disenfranchised groups will be heavily targeted by these changes, and that shows the degree of racist, sexist and classist targeting of the oppressed that the Drumpf so-called administration is trying to pull here.