CMS released details today on their latest attempt to undermine #Medicaid. It's called the Health Adult Opportunity (HAO) Program. The euphemism filled "fact sheet" they posted is designed to obscure the purpose & consequences of HAO. Let me break it down. https://shar.es/a3O5J7
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Nearly every aspect of the "flexibility" that CMS so giddily touts is about states having the power to take away benefits, exclude beneficiaries and make the whole system/process harder for the people it is meant to help.
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Here is the glaring indicator that CMS knows full well that this "flexibility" is not in the best interest of Medicaid beneficiaries: they limit the program to the least sympathetic populations. They only want to do this to the folks they think don't "deserve" health care.pic.twitter.com/HwBwHdbdnS
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If CMS truly believed that this program was in the best interest of beneficiaries, why not apply it to everyone? Thank goodness they do not, of course. But the choice reflects a narrative that Verma's CMS has consistently pushed: only the most sympathetic are "deserving" of care
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In addition to a false narrative of deservingness this program pushes another agenda as well, one with a long history: removing Medicaid's status as an entitlement, capping its funding & undermining its ability to help everyone who is eligible (i.e. block granting it).pic.twitter.com/hQbgXK2rvG
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Don't be fooled by the pretense of "performance indicators" as a mechanism for accountability. What are the baseline expectations for these indicators? What will happen if indicators show people are being harmed? What about the voice and perspectives of actual beneficiaries?pic.twitter.com/2ol2On1Ydm
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Despite the anodyne & euphemistic language CMS uses to describe the "Healthy Adult Opportunity" program this is about making healthcare harder to get for folks on the margins & asserting healthcare as a privilege, not a right. If you're against that, then you're against HAO. /END
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