U.S. rejects Ohio proposal to require Medicaid premiums 

COLUMBUS — A state proposal to require working poor adults on Ohio’s expanded Medicaid rolls to pay more toward their health care or risk losing coverage was rejected Friday by the federal government.The Healthy Ohio Plan would have charged Medicaid beneficiaries premiums and potentially removed them from the rolls if they missed two payments.The governor presented his original proposal as an effort to instill self-sufficiency and wean able-bodied working adults off the program.

Source: U.S. rejects Ohio proposal to require Medicaid premiums – The Blade

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