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Sudin Thanawarra
ATLANTA (AP) — In Georgia's Republican governor's victory, a federal judge Friday ruled labor on the state's plan to expand Medicaid coverage. to lower-income residents who have reinstated the requirement.
U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godby Wood has ruled out the Biden administration's decision to revoke its approval of the labor requirement and the related Georgia state's decision to charge some Medicaid recipients monthly premiums. said the proposal was "arbitrary and capricious based on a number of independent reasons."
She called the revocation "illegal" and withdrew.
Labor requirements were approved by then-President Donald Trump's administration, but the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid Services Centers withdrew approval for that part of the plan last month. and announced the premium requirements.
Emails sent to her CMS after business hours were not returned immediately.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who proposed the Medicaid plan in question, welcomed the ruling, stating that his plan would be "rather than a one-size-fits-all extension to Medicaid." Useful for Georgians," he tweeted.
CMS argued that it may not be possible for low-income Georgians to meet work requirements during the pandemic, when access to health insurance was critical.
Mr. Wood said the agency did not consider or consider the possibility that revoking approval "means less Medicaid coverage in Georgia."
She also said that CMS had misassessed Georgia's plans for full Medicaid expansion and "changed its mind about the key issues underlying approval."
Republicans see Georgia's plan as a financially responsible alternative to full expansion of Medicaid services under the Affordable Care Act. , which is already being implemented by dozens of states.
The plan aimed to add an estimated 50,000 poor and uninsured Georgians to the Medicaid role in his first two years. However, to qualify, new Medicaid recipients must be engaged in a minimum number of qualifying hours through work, vocational training, education, volunteerism, or other similar activities.
Democrats in Georgia say a full expansion would cover hundreds of thousands of people at a much lower cost to the state. This is because President Barack Obama's signature health care law, his ACA, allows the federal government to cover 90% of his costs and to low-income adults, who account for up to 138% of the federal poverty level. Because it gave states the option to expand Medicaid. In the United States he has over 10 million people receiving coverage this way.
Kemp said a full expansion would cost the state a lot in the long run. For health news and content on treatments and more, visit Healthing.ca, a member of the Post Media Network.
