Senator Reverend Warnock’s new report, “Healthy People, Healthy Economy” finds that placing bureaucratic red tape between working people and their health care will lead to hospital closures, job loss, and economic slowdown

The report finds that investing in Medicaid, as opposed to adding bureaucratic and ineffective work reporting requirements, leads to economic growth that creates jobs and gets Americans to work

The Senator’s report found 458 counties across the U.S. where working Medicaid recipients are extremely vulnerable to losing access under these reporting requirements because of lack of internet access, other factors

New legislation marked up yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives would require onerous reporting requirements that do not get people working, and instead kicks working people off their health care

The House legislation would kick over 7 million Americans off Medicaid and 13.7 million Americans off their health care in total

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) released a new report titled “Healthy People, Healthy Economy.” The Senator’s report is the first publication that analyzes by county which Americans are at risk of losing their health care if Washington Republicans restrict Medicaid access through bureaucratic and ineffective work reporting requirements. The report also analyzes how much it would cost each state in job loss, GDP, and devastating administrative costs.

The report finds that the best way to get the most Americans working is to invest in Medicaid, making health care accessible to eligible Americans. On the other hand, work reporting requirements do nothing to bring people into the workforce and kick working people off their health care, making those working Americans more likely to stop working if they cannot access preventative care or manage chronic illness.

“My parents raised me to have a fierce work ethic, I support getting people to work,” said Senator Reverend Warnock.“The data shows that the best way to create jobs and grow the economy is to remove bureaucratic red tape that keeps working people from accessing health care. Instead, Washington politicians are ignoring clear data and forcing reporting requirements on working Americans as a cynical ploy to kick working people off their health care. All of this so they can fund a tax cut for the ultra-wealthy.”

Nowhere have work reporting requirements failed more than in the state of Georgia, where the state has spent a shocking $91 million in taxpayer dollars to create a slow, glitchy, bureaucratic system to track work reporting requirements. The state of Georgia spent $13,000 per enrollee on administrative costs, roughly five times more than the cost of actual health services, during the program’s first year. If other states follow Georgia’s failed model, millions of Americans will lose their health care access, government bureaucracy will grow, hospitals will close, jobs will be lost, and the economy will slow.  

A full copy of the report can be found HERE.

State by state breakdown available HERE.

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