Medicaid Needs Help - Single Payer Universal Healthcare HR3421 Is the Fix

I am your constituent and I want you to know that Georgia has implemented and a number of other states, including Mississippi, Idaho, Kansas and Louisiana are planning to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. According to a 2019 GAO report it is an expensive process and we are seeing that it and doesn’t expand Medicaid much. Here is a link to that report. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-149. I want you to know that demanding work requirements for healthcare is an old argument that fosters grievance and does not work. It does not add to the work force, in fact it detracts. What does add to the workforce is making sure everyone has healthcare. Here is a link to that research for you from the Kaiser family Foundation. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/understanding-the-intersection-of-medicaid-work-a-look-at-what-the-data-say/ It is important that you know that when the population is healthy so is the economy. Single Payer Universal Healthcare costs less, by more that $400 billion every year, according to the 2020 GAO report, will put more people to work, not keep people from changing jobs because they fear losing healthcare. This is what we your constituents need and want and you can do it by actively working to pass HR 3421, the improved Medicare for All Act.