Medicaid Work Requirements Moving Ahead With 10 States In The Mix

In the United States, employment and health insurance have been intertwined for decades. During World War II, in an era of wage freezes, employers started offering health insurance as an employee benefit to attract works (see The Real Reason the U.S. Has Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance). Now 56% of the U.S. population is covered via employer-sponsored health benefits. Medicare and Medicaid were created later, in 1965, to cover the elderly, the disabled, and people without sufficient income, respectively. The threshold of sufficient income has been and continues to be the fuzzy line in qualifying for Medicaid. For . . .