“We’re trying to make sure we’re weeding out those with upward mobility. It’s very crucial that this has some teeth to it, because what you don’t want is for the money to be rationed out among a larger amount of people.” Republican Study Committee Chair Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) on his faction’s efforts to impose a work requirement on Medicaid as part of the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare.
As today’s feature piece by Tierney Sneed suggests, much of what Republicans are calling Obamacare repeal is actually turning out to be an effort to gut Medicaid.