联邦法官否决 Medicaid 工作要求的“医学脆弱”新定义
STAT+: Federal judge rejects new Medicaid ‘frailty’ definition for work requirements
美国马萨诸塞州联邦地区法院法官 Richard D. Stearns 周四否决了联邦政府对“医学脆弱”的新定义，并裁定各州没有足够时间和资源改造资格认定系统。Stearns 在裁定中写道，执行不合法的“医学脆弱”定义可能导致本符合资格、依赖 Medicaid 维持连续治疗的脆弱人群被退保，若无禁令，各州和公众将面临重大困难。
The rollout of Medicaid work requirements may be delayed past the start of the year after a federal judge on Thursday rejected the federal government’s new definition of “medical frailty” and ruled that states did not have adequate time or resources to overhaul eligibility systems.
Judge Richard D. Stearns of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts ruled that federal regulations on who is too sick to work were too restrictive, and said that the suit from more than two dozen states successfully demonstrated that implementation of the Medicaid work requirements, as written, would cause “irreparable harm.”
“Because enforcement of an unlawful definition of ‘medically frail’ may lead to the disenrollment of otherwise eligible vulnerable individuals relying on Medicaid coverage for continuity of care, the States (and public) face potential for great hardship in the absence of an injunction,” Stearns wrote in his order.
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