Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley criticized President Joe Biden about entitlement program enrollment and cl
"Under Joe Biden, we now have more than 42 million people on food stamps and nearly 100 million people on Medicaid. That’s almost a third of the country. Biden sees that as an accomplishment," the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador told"He actually blocked states from moving people from welfare to work. And he put 20 million people on Medicaid who aren’t even eligible, then stopped states from taking them off.
Biden extended the pandemic health emergency several times, which also extended the provision. But former President Donald Trump enacted the law, not Biden. "The notion that this was President Biden’s doing is certainly a big lie and a radical oversimplification on the amount of people being ineligible," said Leigh Ku, director of George Washington University’s Center for Health Policy Research."How many are ineligible is yet to be determined; they are still being processed. It’s a huge undertaking in the states and they are slowly working through those claseloads.
"They were technically all eligible because the law extended their eligibility,," Ku said."Some of them would normally have fallen off eligibility because they got a job, or because they may have aged out of Medicaid or simply because they forgot to turn in their paperwork — that's one of the major things that happens is people forget."
Haley’s claim that"20 million" are ineligible is based on the large number of people added to Medicaid during the pandemic, and some estimates of how many could be removed during reevaluations. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t eligible when they signed up, or that all are ineligible now. And some will be deemed ineligible for reasons such as failing to turn in paperwork.
Email interview, Benjamin Sommers professor of medicine and health policy & economics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Sept. 26, 2023
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